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Older people now less likely to fall into poverty

  • Written by Guyonne Kalb, Professorial Research Fellow and Director of the Labour Economics and Social Policy Program, University of Melbourne
imageThe incidence of poverty among people over 65 is decreasing in part because of increased labour force participation.Col Ford and Natasha de Vere/Flickr, CC BY-SA

The risk of people past retirement age falling into poverty is now decreasing. There has been a substantial improvement compared to 15 years ago, when the incidence of poverty among the...

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