Re: [Pen-l] The Specter Haunting Old Age

["Jim Devine" <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

>  The New York Review of Books
>  Volume 55, Number 4 · March 20, 2008
>  The Specter Haunting Old Age
>  By Jeff Madrick
>
>  Now, according to the British historian and political scientist Robin
>  Blackburn, these gains are just as assuredly being reversed in the
>  United States as well as in other rich nations, and lower-income workers
>  hurt more than others. Blackburn believes that many elderly will fall
>  back into outright poverty, be forced to take jobs in their late sixties
>  and early seventies that are too demanding, if they can find jobs at
>  all, and will be unable to afford needed health care as life spans
>  increase and costs rise. Yet, as Blackburn writes in his impressive book
>  Age Shock, there is little political interest in the problem: climate
>  change, epidemics, nuclear proliferation—and in the US the rising costs
>  of health care and the stagnation of wages—all seem more urgent and
>  dramatic than the problem of poverty in old age.

"You can eat dog food." -- Tom Paxton. (sorry I can't find the full lyrics.)
-- 
Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own
way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
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