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Peer reviewedHerd, Pamela – Gerontologist, 2005
Purpose: The potential effects of implementing three different minimum benefits in Social Security, which have accompanied proposals to privatize the program and reform family benefits, are examined in relation to the adequacy of benefits for women reaching age 62 between 2020 and 2030. Design and Methods: The 1992 Health and Retirement Study is…
Descriptors: Females, Retirement, Privatization, Poverty
Older Women's League, Washington, DC. – 1986
The U.S. population includes over 23 million women aged 45 to 64 and 17 million women aged 65 and over. Their life experiences are very different from those of men. The median total income of women trails that of men at all ages. Women at all ages are twice as likely as men to be poor. Poverty among the elderly is closely associated with sole…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Diseases, Divorce, Dual Career Family
