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According to a 2006 report on sources of income for older persons, "older men were twice as likely (42.6 percent) as older women (21.7 percent) to have income from pensions and retirement savings, and the men's median retirement income of $12,334 was almost two times that of women ($6,804)...About 24 percent of older men had income from earnings, with a median of $24,000 while 14.7 percent of older women had earnings income, with a median of $15,000." (p. 3)
Wu, K. B. (2008). Sources of income for older persons, 2006. Washington, DC: AARP Public Policy Institute. Retrieved from http://assets.aarp.org/rgcenter/econ/fs143_income.pdf
This report includes information about income sources for individuals age 65 and older in 2006 obtained from the March 2007 Current Population Survey (CPS)
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