Tag: low income
The recent rise in Americans’ death rates is a crisis for the lowest-earning men. They are dying about 15 years younger than the highest-earners due to everything from obesity to opioids. Women with the lowest earnings are living 10 years less. But healthcare policy is doing what it’s supposed to in the states that expanded…
The baby boom generation is continuing to work its way up the age ladder. The number of Americans over 80 will more than double to nearly 18 million over the next two decades. And that’s partly because baby boomers are healthier and are living longer – they are also enjoying more of their retirement years…
