ocr: : - Sense - - courity for the Elderly Natweet 1870: and 1930, the number of gainfully employed OVEAS fell from 70 percent to 33 percent in the United Sfatesi just 15: percent of the labor force were covered by penstonsrand only 18 states provided assistance to the elderly. Age discrimination, family collapse, and bankruptcies in corporate: pensions and: savings establishments increased the elderly's ourden. The Great Depression hit the aged especially hard.
