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Retirement Age, The Presidency & The Social Age »

By Susanne Goldstein on Jan 9, 2008 in Anti-Social Age, Social Justice | 5 Comments

Can someone help me out here? I’ve been following the Presidential primaries and a thought occurred to me. How come the average national age of retirement is 65 years old and yet we allow people over 65 to run for President? I don’t really get this. John McCain is 71. Ronald Reagan took office at […]

The $700 Apartment Scam & Thank God for Google »

By Susanne Goldstein on Aug 20, 2007 in Anti-Social Age, More To Explore, Susanne's Favs, Social Justice | 75 Comments

Every movement in society suffers from the ails of its great intentions, and The Social Age is no different. I occasionally run into stories that are so anti-social age, they make my skin crawl. This is one of them.
I was recently helping my friend Tanya look for an apartment here in Boston. Together we […]

The Case of the $54 Million Pants »

By Susanne Goldstein on Jun 29, 2007 in Anti-Social Age, Social Justice | 3 Comments

Maybe there is some justice in the world. On June 26th, a teary-eyed Roy Pearson Jr., an administrative law judge in Washington, D.C., was told he would NOT be awarded the $54 million in damages that he sought after his dry cleaner, Custom Cleaners, lost a pair of his pants. Wow. That would have been […]

The Food Stamp Challenge »

By Susanne Goldstein on Apr 28, 2007 in Social Justice, Cultural Trends, The Social Age | 0 Comments

Now that I am so keenly tuned in to all things Social Age related, I am stunned by the amazing things that people are doing on a daily basis to show that humankind is beginning to show its softer, gentler self.
This week in Oregon is Hunger Awareness Week. Inspired by a similar initiative in Philadelphia […]