Scenarios about 'elderly poverty'
The economic hardship and financial insecurity experienced by people in their retirement years or late adulthood. Elderly poverty reflects societal challenges including inadequate pension systems, healthcare costs, limited savings, and changing family support structures. In alternate history scenarios, different approaches to social welfare, retirement planning, or demographic shifts can dramatically alter the prevalence and severity of economic vulnerability among older populations.
What If Social Security Was Never Created?
Exploring the alternate timeline where the Social Security Act of 1935 never became law, dramatically altering America's approach to retirement, poverty, and the social safety net throughout the 20th and 21st centuries.