Katherine Newman

Katherine Newman is the interim chancellor of the University of Massachusetts, Boston. This piece was produced by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, first published by The Guardian, and adapted for distribution by OtherWords.org.

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Poorer seniors are likely to have been poor, or among the working poor, most of their lives. (Photo: Shutterstock) Views
Monday, July 29, 2019
Retirement Shouldn’t Mean Poverty
Vivian Majors spent her life cleaning houses while her husband, Martin, worked as a carpenter. Their bodies broke down in their 60s. Martin now lives in a nursing home and has Parkinson’s disease. Vivian, now 71, lives on her own and ekes by on a $960 in social security, plus $50 in food stamps...
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