Tag: construction

Autism Syndrome Person

Construction and factory workers, truck drivers, and cleaning crews don’t always have the flexibility to work a few extra years to beef up their monthly Social Security checks. Several blog readers stressed this point in their comments on a recent blog article, “Changing Social Security: Who’s Affected.” Lorraine Porto retired from a desk job, but…

Drawing of Arthritis

The X-rays look very similar for two 60-year-old women with arthritic knees. But the less-educated woman has more severe pain than the person who graduated college. A new study of men and women finds that the degree of knee-joint deterioration visible in an X-ray isn’t the primary reason one person experiences more knee pain than…