[NEWS] Five links about aging, poverty, and inequality
- Is the argument of Piketty that billionaires should be taxed out of existence for the benefit of all really as bad as this columnist thinks it? Bloomberg has it.
- I do agree with this Open Democracy column suggesting a badly-handled guaranteed minimum income scheme could be a disaster.
- It is a sad irony that the stresses of poverty have been confirmed to accelerate the aging of poor people. VICE reports.
- Exercise plays a key role in helping slow down the aging process. The Conversation reports.
- Vox looks at claims of supercentenarians, and finds that poor record-keeping if not outright fraud is responsible for many.
Written by Randy McDonald
September 20, 2019 at 9:30 pm
Posted in Assorted, Demographics, Economics, Social Sciences
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