Care for the Elderly Faces Collapse in UK
By Dennis Moore - WSWSResearch...has revealed a complete lack of social care for the elderly in the UK, due to large-scale cuts. The number of older people requiring care but receiving nothing will...
View ArticleVancouver Seniors Fight 45 Per Cent Rent Hike
By Lauren Gill - Vancouver Media Co-opLow-income tenants at the Lions Manor...are facing a forced 45% rent increase. The increase in rent means that many of the tenants will no longer be able to afford...
View ArticleRetired Michigan Autoworker Dies After Utilities Shut Off
By Lawrence Porter - 23 February 2012Early Monday morning neighbors found 86-year-old John Morgan, a retired Flint autoworker, dead in his truck parked outside in his driveway...Morgan died a few days...
View ArticleAutopsy Shows Retired Michigan Auto Worker Froze to Death After Utility Shutoff
By Lawrence Porter - 24 February 2012A preliminary autopsy has found that John Morgan, an 86-year-old retired auto worker whose body was found in his truck Monday in Flint, Michigan, died of...
View ArticleFamily Starves to Death in Japan
By John Wantanabe - WSWSOn February 20, three bodies were discovered by the police in an apartment in Saitama city, just north of Tokyo. They were believed to be an elderly couple in their 60s and...
View ArticleDeath by a Thousand Cuts: Teachers, Airline Workers and Canada's Public Pensions
By Roger Annis - April 12, 2012Government attacks against worker rights and the social wage are threatening hard-earned gains and advances for workers in Canada on many fronts and in many incremental...
View ArticleShifting the Burden to the 99 Per Cent: Budget Axe Falls on Retirement Supports
By Alex Hemingway - The DominionCuts to retirement income will push more seniors into low-income status, and degrade the quality of life of others, particularly at a time when employment-based pensions...
View ArticleActivism and the Cult of Youth
By Thomas Ponniah - February 13, 2013As it becomes clearer to business and policy-makers that many of the newest forms of information technology are teaching people to become more distracted, unaware...
View ArticleAmerica's Retirement Crisis
Decades of class war leaves most Americans nearing retirement woefully unprepared.read more
View Article5 Ways We Are Isolated from Each Other and Cut Off from Our Roots
Predators must have knowledge about their prey if they are going to be successful hunters. It is clear that we have been studied and our weaknesses have been exploited in an effort to exhaust us...
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