Elderly Homelessness Skyrockets & America's Digital Divide
Episode Segments:
Elderly Homelessness Skyrockets In the next ten years, the number of Americans who are both elderly and homeless is expected to triple--and that projection was made prior to the coronavirus. What can be done to address this growing problem? Dennis Culhane, PhD, from the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice, explains why younger members of the boomer generation have remained the dominant homeless population in the United States, and what can be done to address the problem.
America's Digital Divide There's a digital divide in our country as tens of millions of Americans have no access to broadband internet. Christopher Ali, PhD, from the Department of Media Studies, University of Virginia, says the same huge government effort that brought electricity and telephone service to rural areas in the 1930s and 40s should be applied in a similar way to broadband service today.
Lockdown Hangovers New research shows that alcohol consumption has soared during the coronavirus lockdowns, with heavy drinking by women up by 41%. Michael Pollard, PhD, Senior Sociologist at the RAND Corporation, explains who was most at risk of binge drinking and why this is a serious and ongoing problem.