Tag: mortality
Baby boomers aren’t as healthy as their parents were at the same age. This sobering finding comes out of a RAND study that took a series of snapshots over a 24-year period of the health status of Americans when they were between the ages of 54 and 60. The researchers found that overall health has…
But the Titanic shows that the pattern favoring the wealthy is not new. Rich people live long lives, and poor people die early. This pattern has major implications for the costs and progressivity of the Social Security program. Even if both high and low earners claim at the same age, low earners receive their relatively…
