senior citizen

Examples of senior citizen in the following topics:

• Civil Rights of the Elderly

  • The elderly, or senior citizens, are vulnerable to civil rights abuses due to a propensity for sickness, disability, and poverty.
  • The elderly, sometimes referred to as senior citizens in the United States, are a demographic group usually defined by being retired or over the retirement age (which is dependent on life expectancy changes).

• The Elderly

  • The elderly, often referred to as senior citizens, are people who are generally over the age of 65 and have retired from their jobs.
  • Within the United States, senior citizens are at the center of several social policy issues, most prominently Social Security and Medicare.

• Age and Participation

  • Political participation differs notably by age; in general, older citizens are more likely to turn out in elections than younger ones.
  • Turnout among senior citizens, people sixty-five and older, increased to nearly 70 percent in that same time period.

• Policy Making and Special Interests

  • For example, senior citizens often make their demands onto the policy agenda because of their large numbers and inclination to vote.

• Forming Political Values

• Additional Factors: Gender, Age, Religion, Race, and Ethnicity

  • Senior citizens, people age 65 and older, also have high turnout rates of around 70 percent.
  • Today, black citizens vote at least as often as white citizens who share the same socioeconomic status.

• Providing National Security

  • National security, a concept which developed mainly in the United States after World War II, is the protection of the state and its citizens through a variety of means, including military might, economic power, diplomacy, and power projection.
  • It is responsible for providing national security intelligence assessments, performed by non-military commissioned civilian intelligence agents, to senior U.S. policymakers.
  • The White House National Security Council is the principal forum used by the President for considering national security and foreign policy matters with his senior national security advisers, and Cabinet officials.

• Two Judicial Revolutions: The Rehnquist Court and the Roberts Court

  • One of the Court's major developments involved reinforcing and extending the doctrine of sovereign immunity, which limits the ability of Congress to subject non-consenting states to lawsuits by individual citizens seeking money damages.
  • Roberts took the Constitutional oath of office, administered by senior Associate Justice John Paul Stevens at the White House, on September 29, 2005, almost immediately after his confirmation.

• Obama vs. the Lobbyists?

  • Lynn III, a lobbyist for Raytheon, to hold the position of Deputy Secretary of Defense; to Jocelyn Frye, former general counsel at the National Partnership for Women and Families, to serve as Director of Policy and Projects in the Office of the First Lady; and to Cecilia Muñoz, former senior vice president for the National Council of La Raza, to serve as Director of Intergovernmental Affairs in the Executive Office of the President.
  • The Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington have criticized the administration, claiming that Obama is retreating from his own ethics rules barring lobbyists from working on the issues about which they lobbied during the previous two years by issuing waivers.

• The Bureaucracy

  • It is an executive agency that reports directly to the Director of National Intelligence with responsibility for providing national security intelligence assessments to senior U.S. policymakers.