Michigan senior citizens struggling economically, report says

[Bozita]

Source: Detroit Free Press

Michigan senior citizens struggling economically, report says
Jul 21, 2011
BY ROBIN ERB
DETROIT FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER

Groceries, health care, the cost of utilities and gas for the car -- perhaps no one is more vulnerable to the rising costs of living than Michigan's senior citizens.

A new study concludes that one-third of Michigan's senior citizens are considered "economically insecure," far more than suggested by the federal poverty line.

Even in some of the wealthiest counties, where suburbs buoy the county's overall median income, at least 1 in 4 senior citizens struggles to make ends meet, according to the paper, "Invisible Poverty: New Measure Unveils Financial Hardship in Michigan's Older Population."

"There's the popular perception that they have this nice car and their house is paid off and they travel the country. And that's true for some," said Thomas Jankowski, one of the study's authors and associate research director at Wayne State University's Institute of Gerontology. "But others, many, many others, just skate on the edge of economic security."

Read more: http://www.freep.com/article/20110721/NEWS06/107210485/Michigan-senior-citizens-struggling-economically-report-says?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|FRONTPAGE|s

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Hello, Mr. President, can you hear us now?

[Liberalynn]

1. And the Gang of Six

along with anyone in favor of their piece of crap legislation will be guilty of further pushing them and other Seniors across this nation further over the poverty cliff.

What a disgusting bunch of cretins the lot of them.

[Downwinder]

2. Wonder if we can file charges for Senior Abuse?

[Liberalynn]

3. I only wish we could

[Melinda]

4. "economically insecure" = more coded DC language. JHC, I'm sick of politically correct language. n/t

[Doctor_J]

5. I live amongst many of them, and they mostly vote Repuke

my region is completely run by Hate Radio and Fox Lies. the prez could have drawn a nice contrast between Repukes and Dems by forcefully, vocally taking ANY cuts to SS, Medicare off the table.

[Iliyah]

6. gopers don't care about anyone

but themselves and their corporate masters. Gopers do not want any social programs, period, zip. So therefore, the senior will again vote againt their own interest. Cuts you say, how about no social programs, and of course, the gopers always have said its the Christian churches that should provide for the elderly and the poor not the government.

This hate and fear that gopers instill in less than 1/3 of the Americans to me is against Christian teachings bugt again, they hold the bible and the American flag.

[russspeakeasy]

7. just don't limit your thinking to Michigan seniors...most seniors

are feeling the pinch...too young to die, too old to work.

[awoke_in_2003]

8. and no cost of living increases...

for two years running because, supposedly, their is no cost of living increase. One trip to the grocery store crushes that lie.

[CountAllVotes]

9. add the disabled to this mixture

This is really hard on the disabled. Much of the help needed is not covered at all by anything except what one might happen to have in their pocket which you know isn't much.

This "Gang of Six" (aka: Pack of Thieves) is literally killing off the old and the sick! :argh:

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