Old Women in the Cold

March 24, 2005 | This article appeared in the April 11, 2005 edition of The Nation.

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My 91-year-old friend Alice, like many elderly women, has outlived her modest savings.

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Ruth Rosen

Ruth Rosen, a historian, journalist and senior fellow at the Longview Institute, teaches history and public policy at...

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