> 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.
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