Tag: financial stress
Mental illness, obesity, smoking, chronic disease – researchers have been able to connect the dots between an array of stresses early in life and how people will fare as they age. New research zeroes in on the adversities experienced by children and young adults that ultimately contribute to a premature retirement due to a disability…
In the pandemic’s early days, the unraveling of economic life was breathtaking. Some 3.3 million Americans filed for jobless benefits in the second week of March 2020. A record 6.6 million joined them the following week. By April, government checks were starting to land in workers’ bank accounts, bringing the urgent relief Congress intended. T…