Poverty Among Older Adults Rose Even as the Overall Rate Fell

NPR reports that although poverty overall has fallen, the rate for seniors has been climbing steadily in recent years. A new AARP survey examines how people over 50 are faring in the stretch before retirement — the years when earnings often stop growing but the bills do not. The two trends moving in opposite directions is the part worth sitting with: a broad improvement can coexist with a worsening problem for a specific group.