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• Administration Nominates a Social Security Privatizer as a Trustee

  August 17, 2018: The administration announced the nomination of James Lockhart to be one of the two public trustees for the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds. If confirmed by the Senate, he would serve for four years. Lockhart served as the Deputy Commissio...Read more >

• Déjà Voodoo: Pharma’s Promises To Curb Drug Prices Have Been Heard Before

  July 25, 2018: By Jay Hancock and Sarah Jane Tribble, Kaiser Health News Kaiser Health News is a national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.  Prescription drug prices were soaring. Angry policymak...Read more >

• States Attacking ACA Would Suffer Most If Shield On Preexisting Conditions Were Axed

  July 17, 2018: By Harriet Rowan, Kaiser Health News Kaiser Health News is a national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.  If the Affordable Care Act’s protections for people with preexisting medica...Read more >

• Brett Kavanaugh is a Threat to the Health Care of Older Americans and Must be Rejected

  July 10, 2018: Statement of Robert Roach, Jr., President of the Alliance for Retired Americans, following President Trump’s announcement that he will nominate Brett Kavanaugh to the United States Supreme Court: “When President Trump vowed in 2015 to only app...Read more >

• Janus v. AFSCME Serves as a Reminder to Organize

  June 28, 2018: On June 27 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of corporations in the case of Janus v. AFSCME. Conservative donors like the Koch brothers have long strived to bleed unions dry of resources that protect workers’ rights, and now they have been r...Read more >

• Mobilize for Retirement Security at our 2018 National Membership Meeting

  May 24, 2018: [Best_Wordpress_Gallery id="46" gal_title="Organizing for Retirement Security"]   You are invited to join our quadrennial National Membership Meeting November 13-15, 2018 at the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas. Attendees will participate in...Read more >

• Virginians Rally to Keep Local Social Security Field Office Open

  May 10, 2018:   Alliance members joined American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) President J. David Cox and other allies at a rally in northern Virginia on Thursday to protest the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) plan to shut down th...Read more >

• Private Sector Pensions Fact Sheet

  May 10, 2018: The Alliance often works with the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), an independent government agency, to protect workers’ and retirees’ private sector defined benefit pension plans and ensure that they remain a key part of American...Read more >

• Analysts Compare Paul Ryan’s Retirement Finances to the Average American’s

  April 20, 2018: House Speaker Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) announcement that he will retire at the end of his term makes him eligible for a pension in two years, when he turns 50. Based on the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) payments formula from the Congressi...Read more >

• Connecticut Seniors Describe what Cuts to Medicare and Medicaid would Mean for them

  April 10, 2018: A new video from the Connecticut Alliance for Retired Americans shows what the Affordable Care Act (ACA) means to Connecticut seniors when they are sick and at their most vulnerable. Background In early 2017, Republicans seemed ready to repe...Read more >