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AARP and other advocacy groups are pressing Congress to bolster the program well before 2034, the year when Social Security’s Board of Trustees projects the trust funds will run short. Lawmakers will need to raise additional revenue (for example, through higher payroll taxes), reduce spending on payments (for example, by raising the retirement age) or craft a package that combines both approaches.

Black and Hispanic women reach menopause — when periods stop for 12 months in a row — at age 49 on average, which is two years earlier than the national median age.

Carter, a self-taught guitarist who was born blind in Montgomery, Alabama, and majored in music at Alabama State College, had his biggest hit in 1970 with “Patches,” a plaintive tale about a poor country boy who must become a man and run his family’s farm after his father dies.

“I feel like they’re gaining popularity, especially with grandmothers being young and hip and living longer,” says Renee Patrone Rhinehart, 44, founder of Events by Renee, in the Philadelphia area. She helped organize a grandma shower for her then-75-year-old mother-in-law when Rhinehart had her daughter in 2021, as well as some other grandma showers for clients. Shower gifts help offset the cost of baby products, including car seats and strollers — especially for grandparents living on a fixed income.