Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) said last Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that Republicans don’t plan to alter benefits for current Social Security and Medicare recipients. However, at least 127 members of the House Republican Study Committee have released a budget for fisca... Read more
The Ohio Alliance, Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless, Ohio Federation of Teachers and Union Veterans Council have filed a lawsuit over an Ohio law requiring voters to show photo ID at the polls. Previously, voters had been able to show alternative forms of identification,... Read more
Martin Luther King Jr. Day is Monday, January 16, and many of Dr. King’s words remain as relevant today as they were during his lifetime. On March 25, 1966 in Chicago, at a press conference before his speech at the second convention of the Medical Committee for Human Rights,... Read more
The Food and Drug Administration’s process for approving the Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm, despite great uncertainty about whether it worked, was “rife with irregularities,” according to a congressional investigation. The report also criticized Biogen, Aduhelm’s manufacture... Read more
Retirees who spent their public and private sector pension benefits in 2020 generated $1.3 trillion in total economic output, supporting nearly 6.8 million jobs across the nation, according to a report released last Wednesday by the National Institute on Retirement Security. The ... Read more
Conservative rebels in the House are demanding that the next Speaker of the House commit to opposing a “clean” debt limit increase later in 2023. Their goal is to tie any vote to increase the nation’s debt ceiling to deep cuts in domestic spending that could include cuts to... Read more
On August 16, 2022, President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law, setting into motion multiple provisions that will bring down skyrocketing prescription drug prices for millions of Americans. Many of those provisions will begin in January including: Insulin... Read more
The Biden administration is facing mounting pressure from states to let them import medicine from Canada to help lower prescription drug costs. Colorado on Dec. 5 became at least the fourth state to seek federal permission to use the strategy, following Florida, New Hampshire,... Read more
More older Americans are living by themselves than ever before. Despite this, researchers and advocates say too little attention is being paid to keeping them healthy as they age and ensuring that the nation is able to keep up with a growing demand for affordable, accessible hous... Read more
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