首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
考研
Roberta Gordon never thought she’d still be alive at age 76. She definitely didn’t think she’d still be working. But every Satur
Roberta Gordon never thought she’d still be alive at age 76. She definitely didn’t think she’d still be working. But every Satur
admin
2019-06-06
96
问题
Roberta Gordon never thought she’d still be alive at age 76. She definitely didn’t think she’d still be working. But every Saturday, she goes down to the local grocery store and hands out samples, earning $50 a day, because she needs the money.
More and more older people are finding themselves in a similar situation as Baby Boomers reach retirement age without enough savings and as housing costs and medical expenses rise. Many people reaching retirement age don’t have the pensions that lots of workers in previous generations did, and often have not put enough money into their 401(k)s to live off of. Other workers did not have access to a retirement plan through their employer.
That means that as people reach their mid-60s, they either have to dramatically curtail their spending or keep working to survive. "This will be the first time that we have a lot of people who find themselves downwardly mobile as they grow older," Diane Oakley, the executive director of the National Institute on Retirement Security, told me. "They’re going to go from being near poor to poor."
The problem is growing as more Baby Boomers reach retirement age—between 8,000 to 10,000 Americans turn 65 every day, according to Kevin Prindiville, the executive director of Justice in Aging, a nonprofit that addresses senior poverty. Older Americans were the only demographic for whom poverty rates increased in a statistically significant way between 2015 and 2016, according to Census Bureau data. While poverty fell among people 18 and under and people 18 to 64 between 2015 and 2016, it rose to 14.5 percent for people over 65, according to the Census Bureau’s Supplemental Poverty Measure, which is considered a more accurate measure of poverty because it takes into account health-care costs and other big expenses. "In the early decades of our work, we were serving communities that had been poor when they were younger," Prindiville told me. "Increasingly, we’re seeing folks who are becoming poor for the first time in old age."
This presents a worrying preview of what could befall millions of workers who will retire in the coming decades. If today’s seniors are struggling with retirement savings, what will become of the people of working age today, many of whom hold unsteady jobs and have patchwork incomes that leave little room for retirement savings? The current wave of senior poverty could just be the beginning. And this could have larger implications for the economy. If today’s middle-class households curtail their spending when they retire, the whole economy could suffer.
In the last paragraph, the author shows his______about senior poverty problem.
选项
A、incapability
B、worry
C、anxiety
D、agony
答案
B
解析
态度方向题。根据定位词定位到文章最后一段。该段最后三句指出,当前的老年贫困浪潮可能只是一个开始。这可能会对经济产生更大的影响。如果现在的中产阶级家庭在退休后缩减开支,那么整个经济都会受到影响,故B项为正确选项。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/vknZ777K
0
考研英语一
相关试题推荐
Writeanessaybasedonthefollowingchart.Inyourwriting,youshould1)describethechart,and2)giveyourcomments.
Supposeyouwanttostudyataforeignuniversity.Writealetterto1)askaboutitsaccommodationandfees,and2)what
Directions:Inthissection,youareaskedtowriteanessaybasedonthefollowinginformation.Makecommentsandexpressy
Directions:Inthissection,youareaskedtowriteanessaybasedonthefollowinginformation.Makecommentsandexpressy
Directions:Writeanessaybasedonthefollowingchart.Inyourwriting,youshould1)describethechart,and2)g
YourdelegationhasjustreturnedfromavisittoauniversityintheUS.AndyouwerewarmlytreatedtherebytheHeadmasterDi
OnSeptember28thTimCook,Apple’schiefexecutive,publishedanopenletterapologisingtocustomersfortheshortcomingsoft
Weallthoughtitapitythattheconferenceshouldhavebeencancelled.
Thehumannoseisanunderratedtool.Humansareoftenthoughttobeinsensitivesmellerscomparedwithanimals,【B1】______this
随机试题
在没有道路中心线的道路上,前车遇后车发出超车信号时,应当______。
张某,男,62岁。近来极易汗出,恶风,劳动后尤甚,体倦乏力,周身酸楚,舌苔薄白,脉细弱。其治法是
男婴,胎龄33周,生后5小时出现进行性呼吸困难、青紫和呼吸衰竭,动脉血PaO24.66kPa(35mmHg),PaCO29.98kPa(75mmHg),SaO270%,此病的发生与下列哪项关系最为密切
五输穴中以所行为
申请护士执业注册者,之前必须先得到
[案情] 2002年9月21日上午10点,张三家修缮房屋,李四应张三的邀请来张三家帮助做杂事。张三先安排李四朝房顶上泥,后又安排李四做饭。李四进入伙房时,一根水泥房梁断裂下落,砸在李四身上,致其右尺桡骨双骨折和右腿腓骨双骨折,住入医院治疗50天,花医疗
甲公司是一家有限责任公司,注册资本为l亿元。截至2017年12月,公司净资产额8000万元。公司其他有关情况如下:(1)甲公司曾于2016年8月成功发行3年期公司债券1000万元,2年期公司债券500万元。(2)2018年3月10日,甲公司召开董事会,
Theideaofhumanoidrobotsisnotnew.TheyhavebeenpartoftheimaginativelandscapeeversinceKarlCapek,aCzechwriter,
[*]
太阳醒过来了,披上红妆,在东山之巅冉冉升起。她容光焕发,笑容可掬,向人们问候晨安。快活的百灵一向早起,在枝条间婆娑起舞,向太阳娇嘀婉转,唱着颂歌。向日葵戴着亮闪闪的露珠点缀的花冠,争先恐后地迎着朝阳盛开。一群群多情的蜜蜂,哼着轻快的恋歌,飞入绿丛之中与可心
最新回复
(
0
)