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Download full textMoon, Marilyn – 1985
Measured by cash income, the rate of poverty among the age 65 and older population has fallen dramatically, especially since 1974--from 25 percent in 1968 to 14.1 percent in 1983. However, this decline is the result more of an increase in poverty rates for the nonelderly in recent years than of major progress in reducing poverty for those over 65.…
Descriptors: Blacks, Economic Factors, Economically Disadvantaged, Family Involvement
