A recent survey showed that 44.1 percent of single Japanese women aged 65 and older are living in poverty, much higher than the rate for single elderly men. The poverty level is as severe as that ...

Older women are more likely to live in poverty than men as a result of wage discrimination and having to take time out of the workforce for caregiving. Elderly poverty by age group over time ...

Thirteen percent of women over 75 years old are poor compared to 6 percent of men. Poverty rates for males and females are the same throughout childhood, but increase for women during their ...

Elderly women, for example, are more likely to be living in poverty than elderly men. And women, aged 80 and older, have the highest poverty rate among all age groups. Those who are not married ...

A new study shows many older New Yorkers are living in poverty and facing uncertain futures. Minorities and immigrants are especially struggling.

For many women, the gender gap haunts them well into their retirement years, when far more women find themselves living in poverty. In fact, women are almost twice as likely as men to live below ...

ST. GEORGE, Utah (KSTU) – An 80-year-old man in Utah is working hard as a grocery bagger to pay off his late wife’s medical bills. Anyone who goes to Smith’s Market on Bluff in St. George is used to ...

[Photo/Chinanews.com] "The children's smiling faces are what encourage me to continue doing this," said 72-year-old Liu Peichang ... with financing students from poverty-stricken families.

Tristan Alexander Colgrove, 24, of Northeast El Paso, was arrested by police homicide detectives in connection with a shooting that killed a 26-year-old man on ... is smiling broadly in his ...

An elderly man was mowed down and killed by a hit-and-run driver in Brooklyn on May 10 — just seconds after the same driver smashed into a nearby vehicle, cops said Wednesday. The errant driver ...

An elderly woman and man — who one neighbor told The Post was her son — were found dead in a Queens home Saturday afternoon, according to police. Cops responded to a 911 call about a male shot ...

Supported by By Lydia DePillis Photographs by Mike Belleme In the 1960s, more than a third of older Americans lived in poverty. With the aid of federal programs like Medicare to help the elderly ...