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• House Passes Budget Resolution Agreement

  August 30, 2021: The House passed a $3.5 trillion budget blueprint on Tuesday with a 220-212 party-line vote, paving the way for Democrats to pass a robust spending package that will invest in families, retirees, and seniors. The package will incl Read More >

• KHN: After Pandemic Ravaged Nursing Homes, New State Laws Protect Residents

  August 26, 2021: When the coronavirus hit Martha Leland’s Connecticut nursing home last year, she and dozens of other residents contracted the disease while the facility was on lockdown. Twenty-eight residents died, including her roommate. � Read More >

• Action Needed: Demand That Your Senators Protect Our Vote

  August 23, 2021: The right to vote is under siege, with extremist state legislatures passing dozens of laws to try to keep people from voting. On Tuesday this week, the U.S. House of Representatives introduced H.R. 4, the John Lewis Voting Rights Read More >

• Medicare Advantage Plans Cost Federal Government $7 Billion in 2019

  August 23, 2021: A new report from the Kaiser Family Foundation shows that the private Medicare Advantage plans that some beneficiaries choose are costing the Medicare trust fund $7 billion, or $321 more per beneficiary than traditional Medicare f Read More >

• Growing Number of Public Health Experts Recommend Upgrading Masks

  August 23, 2021: Cloth masks may have protected you during the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic, but with the rise of the Delta variant many public health officials are now advising people to use higher-quality masks. Americans are advised Read More >

• Tell President Biden to Take the First Steps to Save USPS

  August 23, 2021: USPS leadership must put its mission of delivering critical goods and services to Americans first. You can sign our petition to tell President Biden that he must take steps to ensure that happens and save the Post Office. Read More >

• Retirees Applaud Election of Liz Shuler and Fred Redmond to lead the AFL-CIO

  August 20, 2021: Statement of Robert Roach, Jr., President of the Alliance for Retired Americans, on the AFL-CIO Executive Council’s election today of Liz Shuler as President of the AFL-CIO and of Fred Redmond to succeed Ms. Shuler as AFL-CIO Se Read More >

• Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal Passes Senate

  August 16, 2021: Earlier in the week on Tuesday, after much debate, the Senate passed a $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package on a 69-30 vote, with 19 Republicans joining the united 50 Democrats. The package included funding for tradit Read More >

• Retirees Applaud President Biden’s Forceful Call for Action to Lower Prescription Drug Prices

  August 16, 2021: On Thursday, President Biden made remarks from the East Room of the White House to urge Congress to pass legislation that would allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices, a policy the Alliance has been advocating for since its launc Read More >

• Alliance Says “Expand, Don’t Cut” Social Security as Anniversary Approaches

  August 13, 2021: With Social Security’s 86th anniversary coming up tomorrow -- Saturday, August 14 -- the Arizona Alliance continued the summer celebrations of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid on Thursday. This year the Arizona chapter’s Read More >