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• KFF Health News: How Older People Are Reaping Brain Benefits From New Tech

  August 21, 2025: It started with a high school typing course. Wanda Woods enrolled because her father advised that typing proficiency would lead to jobs. Sure enough, the federal Environmental Protection Agency hired her as an after-school work Read More >

• KFF Health News: Breaking Down Why Medicare Part D Premiums Are Likely To Go Up

  August 15, 2025: Medicare enrollees who buy the optional Part D drug benefit may see substantial premium price hikes — potentially up to $50 a month — when they shop for next year’s coverage. Such drug plans are used by millions of people Read More >

• Retiree Activists Mark 90th Anniversary of Social Security with Nationwide Call to Action

  August 14, 2025: WASHINGTON – From Connecticut to California, retiree activist members of the Alliance for Retired Americans are rallying at more than 50 events to demand that Congress and the Trump Administration protect and strengthen Social S Read More >

• KFF Health News: Experts Say Rural Emergency Rooms Are Increasingly Run Without Doctors

  August 12, 2025: EKALAKA, Mont. — There was no doctor on-site when a patient arrived in early June at the emergency room in the small hospital at the intersection of two dirt roads in this town of 400 residents. There never is. Dahl Memori Read More >

• Alliance Members Mark Social Security’s 90th Anniversary with Mobilization Events Across the Country

  August 08, 2025: Alliance members have joined the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) and other labor allies to hold dozens of “Save Social Security” events to coincide with the 90th anniversary of the earned benefits program. Read More >

• New Poll Shows Most Americans Are Stressed About Grocery Prices

  August 08, 2025: A new AP-NORC poll shows that Americans are concerned about the high cost of groceries, with more than half of those surveyed reporting that buying groceries is a major source of stress. A large portion of those surveyed also r Read More >

• New Report: Social Security Administration Field Offices Lost An Estimated 20% of Staff This Year

  August 08, 2025: New reporting from Axios detailing the full extent of the Trump Administration’s workforce cuts in Social Security Administration field offices was published Thursday and shows how this is affecting Americans across the country. Read More >

• Alliance Webinar Draws Attention to How Republicans’ “One Big Beautiful Bill” Will Hurt Older Americans

  August 07, 2025: On Thursday, the Alliance hosted a special educational Zoom webinar entitled “The Ugly Truth About the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill,’” outlining the harms created by the Republican budget bill and next steps for fighting back. Read More >

• As Medicare and Medicaid Turn 60, Retirees Fight Against Attempts to Cut Them

  August 07, 2025: This Wednesday marked the 60th anniversary of Medicare and Medicaid, and Alliance members mobilized to protect the health care programs from the biggest threats they have faced since President Lyndon B. Johnson signed them into la Read More >

• Bessent Reveals Trump Accounts are a “Backdoor” to Privatizing Social Security

  August 07, 2025: On Wednesday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that “Trump Accounts” created by the Republican budget bill are a “backdoor for privatizing Social Security,” claiming they could eventually supplement or even replace th Read More >