Education
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…
A new study lays out all the difficulties older workers have holding onto a job so they can retire on their own terms – even when the economy is doing well. Over the past quarter of a century, more than half of the older Americans who had been employed in stable jobs have been pushed…
