Nothing, however, is as straightforward as it seems in The Beguiled, not even its perversities. Take, for example, the lovely opening sequence in which a little, 12-year-old girl comes upon the body of the soldier in the forest. She is, at first, frozen with fear.
And nearly a quarter of married couples and almost half of unmarried retirees rely on Social Security payments for at least 90% of income. With an average monthly Social Security check of around $1,230 per month, seniors are receiving average annual payments that total just $14,760 a year.
The Census Bureau released a number of statistics about the group of people age 65 and older in conjunction with Older Americans Month in May. The median income for householders 65 and older did not change substantially from 2010 to 2011. In 2011 it was $33,118. Likewise, the percent of seniors living in poverty did not change substantially between those two years and remained at 8.7 percent, or 3.6 million seniors, in 2011.