Tag: widowers
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Soaring apartment rents and widowed or divorced baby boomers with spare bedrooms and inadequate retirement income – these two trends have conspired to drive up the number of boomers seeking roommates. New listings being posted by homeowners between January and June on Silvernest, a website where boomers can search for potential roommates, doubled to…
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The brief’s key findings are: Since the mid-1990s, the poverty rate for widows has dropped sharply. Potential reasons include rising levels of education and work experience for women generally and a higher marriage rate among women with more education. The findings show that, so far, the drop in widows’ poverty has primarily been driven by…