White House Conference on Aging
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On Monday, July 13, 2015, the White House will host the Conference on Aging, an event that will address the state of aging in the nation and ways to improve the quality of life for all older Americans. Retirement security, specifically Social Security, effects the lives of millions of Americans and is even more critical to millions of older women, more than half of whom would fall into poverty without http://www.jec.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/d0036901-2da3-4387-b77f-d33afffe6f7f/social-security-provides-economic-security-to-women---jec---10.28.pdf Social Security benefits. Forty-nine percent of all nonmarried (divorced, widowed, or never married) women ages 65 and older get 90 percent or more http://www.ssa.gov/news/press/factsheets/women.htm of their income from social security --- and that's a big deal. Watch https://www.whitehouse.gov/live a live stream of the conference or join the conversation by using the hashtag #WHCOA.
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