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| Title | Income and Poverty of Older Americans, 2011 |
| URL | Open link Open in new window |
| Publisher | AARP Public Policy Institute |
| Date | September 2013 |
| Pages | 8 pp. |
| Description | This fact sheet shows that Social Security helps to shield individuals 65 and older from increases in poverty and drops in median income experienced by other age groups since 2007. Even so, in 2011, the official poverty rate was 8.7 percent for people aged 65 and olde., while a measure of poverty produced by the Census Bureau shows 15.1 percent of older Americans in poverty. |
| Filed in | Aging > Economy and workforce |
| Topics | Aging |
| Added | 10/14/2013 01:17pm |
| Updated | 08/29/2014 09:11am |
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