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Making Sen$e Oct 31

For these seniors, entrepreneurial ambition is far from retiring

By Paul Solman

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Social Security Slated to Run Dry in 2033, Trustees Warn

Social Security will exhaust its trust fund in 2033 -- three years earlier than previous projections, the program's trustees announced Monday. Ray Suarez, Nancy Altman of Social Security Works and the Heritage Foundation's David John discuss its long-term health amid…

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U.S. Faces ‘Explosion of Senior Citizens’: Will Baby Boomers Strain Economy?

In 2011 the first of 79 million Americans born between the end of World War II and the mid-1960s will turn 65, swelling the ranks of Medicare and Social Security recipients. Judy Woodruff looks at the implications with Nicholas Eberstadt…

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Arts Dec 03

New lift, pathways to open the Acropolis to disabled visitors

By Associated Press

Politics Dec 03

WATCH: Pence touts plans for quick vaccine distribution

By Associated Press

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks at a news conference ahead of the 72nd U.N. General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York on Sept. 13. Photo by Mike Segar/Reuters

World Dec 03

U.N. chief says vaccine can’t undo damage from global pandemic

By Edith M. Lederer, Associated Press

Health Dec 03

This biologist is figuring out how to short-circuit sperm as birth control

By Laura Santhanam

An absentee ballot and required paperwork await preparations at the Wake County Board of Elections on the first day that the state started mailing them out, in Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S. September 4, 2020. Photo by REUTERS/Jonathan Drake

Politics Dec 03

Georgia GOP seeks mail-in ballot changes, despite no evidence of systemic fraud

By Ben Nadler, Kate Brumback, Associated Press