The number of elderly folks living in poverty on Long Island spiked dramatically over the past decade, as thousands say they are unable to make ends meet, according to a new study. Researchers found ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- New York has one of the highest rates of seniors living in poverty of any state in the country, with elevated rates in the heavily-populated boroughs of New York City accounting ...

By the government’s official poverty measure, nearly 10% of seniors lived in poverty last year, up from 9.7% the year before.

Most people want to grow old - after all, the alternative is worse - but few want to be old, burdened by loneliness, isolation and the looming risk of poverty. "We thought: nobody is interested in old ...

When it comes to seniors’ economic security, America is in poor shape. This October, an annual assessment of pension systems worldwide gave the United States a barely passable C+, ranking the ...

Poverty is on the rise, but only among seniors, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s annual poverty report. Based on the official measure, which is a simple calculation based on pretax cash income ...

WASHINGTON, DC (WWLP) – The U.S. Census Bureau has found that in 2021 around 8 percent of the nation’s population age 65 and over lived in poverty, and nearly 63 percent of them lived alone. The ...

Seniors in the Philadelphia area are among the poorest in the nation, according to the latest study from Pew Charitable Trusts. Philly seniors have a higher poverty rate than the overall population, ...

Long Island had the largest growth in its senior population over the past decade, surpassing all other areas of the state, outside of New York City, and a rising percentage face poverty, according to ...

The number of new entrants into poverty also increased during this time, according to a report by the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI). Poverty rates fell in the first half of the last ...

Poverty is on the rise, but only among seniors, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s annual poverty report. Based on the official measure, which is a simple calculation based on pretax cash income ...