Social Security is the backbone of millions of Americans, especially seniors who rely heavily on it. And given recent ...

Recent cuts eliminated a small, specialized workforce that sets the poverty standards determining who is eligible for ...

In percentage terms, the District of Columbia was the leading area with more than 20 percent of seniors living below the poverty line. In 2022, the poverty line was $14,040 for an individual age ...

Social Security is arguably the most successful anti-poverty program in American history. Before President Franklin D.

David W. Rasmussen, Florida State University (THE CONVERSATION) In 1959, more than a third of all elderly Americans lived in poverty. Slashing that number to under 10 percent by the late 1990s was ...

From now through September, a Senior Law Program attorney will visit five community centers across the Valley once a month to ...

Elderly people aged 65 and above had the highest poverty rate, with about 45 per cent of the city’s seniors living in poverty, totalling around 584,000 people. After taking into account policy ...

Federal party leaders unveiled a series of policies Monday that they said would boost housing construction, make life more affordable for seniors and speed up approvals for natural resource projects.

Line was among the participants of the Seniors’ Voices on Poverty Forum organized by the Birchmount Bluffs Neighbourhood Centre Tuesday, March 28. The event, held at the centre, included panel ...

Policies like this help seniors living above and below the poverty line, as well as those who make too much to qualify for assistance but are still struggling. A 2021 study by the Gerontology ...