Tag: obesity
The fortunes of Americans whose wealth is in the top 10 percent have soared, leaving the rest of the country trailing in their wake. But let’s focus instead on the unsettling trends that have developed within the middle class. Both the health and finances of older workers have deteriorated in the bottom half of “t…
Staying healthy is becoming a preoccupation for baby boomers as each new medical problem arises and the existing ones worsen. The stress of having too much debt isn’t helping. The older workers and retirees who carry debt are less healthy than the people who are debt free, and higher levels of debt have worse healt…
