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Basic Solutions to a Shameful Situation
by Louise Cooper From the Spring 2014 issue of Jewish Currents Poverty among American women 65 and older is no longer just a problem, but a crisis. As of 2012, there were more than 733,000 elderly women living on $15 per day, or less than $5,500 annually — an income that barely exceeds half the federal poverty level. That figure was an increase of 135,000 in just one year, according to the National Women’s Law Center. No one seems sure why.

