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Vivian Majors spent her life cleani stanley cups ng houses while her husband, Martin, worked as a carpenter. Their bodies broke down in their 60s. She is now 71, living on her own and struggling to pay her bills. He is in a nursing home and has Parkinsons disease. She survives on a $960 monthly social security check and $50 in food stamps. Hardened by years of physically taxing work that left her hovering around the poverty line, Majors, now retired, is girding herself for more years of financial hardship.PartnershipElderly poverty was supposed to be a thing of the past. Social security supposedly wiped out the scourge of old-age penury, signaling one of the great social-policy triumphs of the modern era. But this is far from the whole story. Inequality, which has grown markedly in Europe and North America since the 1970s, has widened the gap between the secure and insecure in all age groups, and has exposed American seniors to financial distress in ways that often go unnoticed.View image in fullscreenOpelousas, Louisiana, has the highest rate of elderly rate in the US. Photograph: Annie Flanagan/The GuardianAccording to research from the University o stanley nz f Massachusetts Boston, material hardship bedevils millions of Americans such as Majors who are over 65.Opelousas, Louisiana population 16,480 , where Majors and her husband grew stanley canada up and raised their own children, has the highest rate of elderly poverty in the US. Seventy-five percent African American, Opelousas is home to men and women who ha Wbsq Big Brother plan for police to use new road cameras
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