Income, Poverty, and Material Hardship Among Older Americans

Income, Poverty, and Material Hardship Among Older Americans

Using data from the 2008 and 2010 waves of the Health and Retirement Study to analyze the determinants of material hardship among individuals ages sixty-five and older, I look at five self-reported hardships: food insecurity, skipped meals, medication cutbacks, difficulty paying bills, and dissatisf...

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Main Author: Helen Levy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Russell Sage Foundation 2015-11-01
Series:RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
Subjects:
poverty
material hardship
food insecurity
older Americans
Online Access:http://www.rsfjournal.org/doi/full/10.7758/RSF.2015.1.1.04

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http://www.rsfjournal.org/doi/full/10.7758/RSF.2015.1.1.04

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