Minority seniors will bear worst financial brunt of pandemic

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The financial toll of the pandemic will take years to recover from, but what happens to those people who don’t have years to recover? The nation’s seniors are in that position, and University of Massachusetts Boston gerontologist Marc Cohen and gerontology fellow Jane Tavares wanted to look more closely within that age group. Based on their analysis of the Great Recession’s effects on seniors, they found that minority seniors in particular are likely to lose the most.

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