Tag: health
A small fraction of U.S. workers are on federal disability insurance – about 8 million – but the monthly cash payments are crucial to them because they’re no longer able to work. What stands out in a new study – the first fine-grained picture of who gets the benefits – is that Black Americans are highly reliant…
This post was written by Harry Margolis, a new contributor to the Squared Away Blog. On my Risking Old Age in America podcast, I discuss healthy aging with Taylor Jansen of the Healthy Aging Data Reports Lab at the University of Massachusetts Boston. They produce studies on the factors contributing to healthy aging in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Rhod…