When I first read that women are 80 percent more likely than men to live in poverty after 65, I did not realize the percentage was so high. I discovered that the percentage came from a 2016 National Institute of Retirement Security report that relied on the 2012 Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) from the U.S. Census Bureau. The credible, large-scale national survey analyzes variables such as income from Social Security, pensions, savings and part-time work to determine poverty levels.
The figure does not mean 80 percent of women are impoverished in retirement but that women are Please log in to see the rest of this story.
