Eleni Schirmer is a writer living in Montréal. She holds a postdoc at Concordia University’s Social Justice Centre and organizes with Debt Collective. The accounts and information in this article were based on scholarship and research from Linda Gordon, Edwin Amenta and Steven Burg, among others, as well as interviews and primary source documents.
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Who Would Want to Grow Old Only to Grow Poor?
Seniors are increasingly in debt and facing financial crises at levels not seen since the Great Depression. The mass movement that fought for seniors 100 years ago under the banner of the Townsend Plan could be a model for solving the growing crisis now.
Eleni Schirmer