How many people rely on #SocialSecurity and #Medicare in your state? Check out our fact sheets:

[riversedge]

Interesting state by state report:

How many people rely on #SocialSecurity and #Medicare in your state? Check out our fact sheets: http://bit.ly/1uOb1FG

http://www.aarp.org/work/social-security/info-10-2011/Social-Security-Medicare-Importance-State-Profiles.html?sf29954849=1


Social Security
The Importance of Social Security and Medicare
Individual State Profiles

by: Gary Koenig, Lina Walker, from: Public Policy Institute, August, 2013



This and Related Reports

How Social Security Fights Poverty

Medicare Out of Pocket Spending

These fact sheets provide state data on the number of seniors who count on Social Security for much of their retirement income; the percentage of middle income seniors kept out of poverty by Social Security; number of Medicare beneficiaries by state; and the role of Social Security and Medicare in state economies. Read This Report

[KittyWampus]

1. First glance- Older residents in Mississipi rely more on Social Security than in New York...

this is interesting.

Thanks

[still_one]

2. That is the main reason older Americans should not vote for republicans

[Downwinder]

3. I am living in poverty with SS. Without it I would not be living.

[RebelOne]

5. I am living on Social Security also, but not in poverty yet.

I have some savings which I only rely on for emergencies. My son wants me to move in with him and his wife. They have a large house, but I would have to put most of my belongings into storage. I live in a mobile home, but even so, I still have a lot of shit to move.

[daredtowork]

4. Now we need similar reports

For people living on all forms of fixed income - welfare for individuals and families, SSI/SSDI/and all other forms of support for the disabled, special programs to support drug addicts or the mentally ill. After that perhaps parents could chime in with hand count of how many are supporting adult children who are living at home because they had nowhere else to go.

Add to that whatever statistics on the homeless that can be gathered.

When we put all that together I think we will have a real picture of poverty in this country.

We need to unite these fragments into a single voice to speak of the dehumanization and indignity that has been allowed to go on for far too long here. Just focusing on "seniors" or "the mentally ill" exacerbates the problem by creating narrowly targeted solutions that benefit specific groups...often at the expense of other impoverished groups! It's the same problem as raising money by saying "do it for the children!" Then when everyone's pockets are empty and they are suffering from philanthropy-fatigue, we have a nice new shiny wing of the children's hospital, while the smelly homeless guy (who was only smelly because he was in the streets and ill) dies in a gutter merely because he wasn't cute enough to be RT'd on Twitter.