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Title: Women over 65 are more likely to be poor than men, regardless of race, educational background, and marital status

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Publication Year: 2016

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Abstract: Women age 65 and older are much more likely to be poor than their male counterparts—and older, minority, and unmarried women are at greatest risk. The chart below replicates findings in a new report by the National Institute on Retirement Security, but uses an alternative measure of poverty that takes into account out-of-pocket medical expenses and other factors in addition to income. Hispanic senior women have the highest poverty rate of any group—31 percent, compared with 28 percent of Hispanic men over the age of 65. Senior women who never married have a similarly high poverty rate (29 percent); comparatively, senior men who never married have a poverty rate of 21 percent. As women get older, they also become more likely to be in poverty: 17 percent of women between the ages of 70–79 and 22 percent of women 80 and over are in poverty. Meanwhile, men in these age groups have a poverty rate of 11 percent and 17 percent, respectively.

Url: https://www.epi.org/publication/women-over-65-are-more-likely-to-in-poverty-than-men/

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Authors: Morrissey, Monique

Publisher: Economic Policy Institute

Data Collections: IPUMS CPS

Topics: Gender, Health, Labor Force and Occupational Structure

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