GAO reports that in 2022, 32% of households with a worker age 55 or older had neither retirement savings nor a defined-benefit pension. Retirement savings include accounts such as 401(k)s and IRAs.
The same JAMA analysis counted about 79,000 direct-to-consumer prescription-drug advertisements in 1997 and about 4.6 million in 2016. The 2016 total included roughly 663,000 television commercials.
AARP and the National Alliance for Caregiving reported that more than 40% of family caregivers provided high-intensity care in 2025.
Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism contain explicit teachings that interrupt retaliation. Jesus commands forgiveness; Qur’an 24:22 tells believers to pardon and overlook; and Dhammapada verse 5 says hatred is not ended by hatred but by non-h
In Kravitz and colleagues’ randomized standardized-patient trial, physicians prescribed antidepressants to 55% of patients portraying adjustment disorder who made a brand-specific request, compared with 10% of otherwise comparable patients
The official U.S. poverty measure uses money income before taxes and excludes noncash benefits such as SNAP, public housing, and Medicaid.
Yes. Census household income can include the income of unrelated people sharing a housing unit, including roommates and lodgers, depending on the survey definition.
In a 1928 article in the American Journal of Sociology, Edward L. Bernays wrote that public opinion can be manipulated and described techniques for creating and changing public attitudes.
In Manufacturing Consent, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky proposed a “propaganda model” in which mass-media output is shaped by recurring institutional filters rather than requiring direct state censorship or a secret conspiracy among jou
In experimental work on ageist language in job advertisements, Burn, Button, Munguia Corella, and Neumark found that the discouragement effect of age-stereotyped wording on older applicants was quantitatively important—comparable in magnitu
