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July 19, 2018
The Worst Way to Pay for Family Leave
A plan for paid family leave put forward by Marco Rubio and Ivanka Trump would steal from the elderly.
Michelle Chen
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May 29, 2018
By 2030, 1 in 3 US Prisoners Will Be Over 50
The criminal-justice system is failing to deal with our aging prison population in a humane way.
Michelle Chen
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January 19, 2018
Home-Care Workers Clocking 24-Hour Shifts Are Being Paid for Only 13 Hours
A New York State rule is standing in the way of home-care workers’ earning their rightful pay, and care recipients’ getting the attention they deserve.
Michelle Chen
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September 29, 2017
When Growing Old Means Living in Your Car, Working in an Amazon Warehouse
An interview with Nomadland author Jessica Bruder on America’s new, precarious old age.
Astra Taylor
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October 5, 2016
Ursula Le Guin Has Stopped Writing Fiction—but We Need Her More Than Ever
The author on sexism, aging, and the radical possibilities of imaginative story telling.
Zoë Carpenter
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June 3, 2016
Obama Flips on Social Security—a Big Win for Bernie Sanders
The president’s call to strengthen the program is a change of heart, and a breathtaking salute to the Vermont senator.
William Greider
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March 7, 2016
Why Seniors—Not CEOs—Deserve a Raise
Social Security is the most powerful tool available to lift people out of poverty.
Elizabeth Warren
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October 27, 2015
What’s It Like Growing Old in the New Economy?
Danish architect Deane Simpson explores this vexing question in his book Young-Old: Urban Utopias of an Aging Society.
Matthew Shen Goodman
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August 10, 2015
We Need to Fight to Protect Medicare
Some powerful people want to gut the fifty-year-old program.
NationAction
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April 14, 2015
How to Die
Atul Gawande argues that physicians should focus care on the good life—including its very end.
Sophia Rosenfeld