Non-white and Hispanic Americans under age 65 are dying in greater numbers than white people in that age group....
Due to persistent racial differences in wealth, poverty, employment, housing, health status, access to health care, and other factors, Black and other non-white communities have faced significantly worse economic and health effects related to the coronavirus than white communities....
Jacqueline L. Angel and Juan Fernando Torres-Gil, For the Inquirer Changing demographics are redefining America in important ways, and with the elections around the corner, Republican and Democratic candidates would be wise to pay particularly close attention to older adults. By 2050, the United States will be...
By Elizabeth Bauer Since the release of the most recent Social Security Trustees' Report in June 2018, there's been a recognition that 2034 will be here before we know it, and that, subsequent to the depletion of the Trust Fund, when benefits are cut...
"As the twin demographic shifts of population aging and diversity speed forward in America, it is hard to imagine a timelier or more needed work." - Paul Irving, Chairman, Milken Institute Center for the Future of Aging This timely and critical book takes on a new phenomenon...
A 2009 AARP study says Hispanics could account for nearly a quarter of the population ages 50-64 by the year 2050. The 2.7 million immigrants, mostly farmworkers, who gained amnesty when President Ronald Reagan signed the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act, are rapidly aging...
The United States is home to some 11.3 million undocumented immigrants, according to Pew Research Center estimates. Many of them hope to retire in their home countries one day – and many others look forward to living the rest of their lives in the U.S....
The Tumultuous Path Toward Legal Protections and Economic Security...
On Feburary 8, 2015 Ai-jen Poo, director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, and Fernando Torres-Gil, the director of the UCLA Center for Policy Research on Aging and a UCLA professor of Social Welfare and Public Policy, discussed immigration and aging at the UCLA Hammer...