Eleni Schirmer is a writer living in Montréal. She is a Spencer fellow at Columbia’s School of Journalism and organizes with the Debt Collective.
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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
