If by "poor", you mean people who's needs aren't met, we just don't have very many of them in the US. The author of this article certainly was not poor by that definition.
As for aging, that was an issue in the past, particularly when most work was manual labor. Luckily, the present and future are much better - projections suggest most old people will be capable of working well past 65. Here is the hot paper:
http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2004/01/understandi...
As for aging, that was an issue in the past, particularly when most work was manual labor. Luckily, the present and future are much better - projections suggest most old people will be capable of working well past 65. Here is the hot paper:
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/329/5997/1287
If you are on the wrong side of the academic paywall (my NYU library account still works), here is a press release: http://www.iiasa.ac.at/Admin/INF/PR/2010/2010-09-09.html