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• KFF Health News: How To Find the Right Medical Rehab Services

  July 15, 2025: Rehabilitation therapy can be a godsend after hospitalization for a stroke, a fall, an accident, a joint replacement, a severe burn, or a spinal cord injury, among other conditions. Physical, occupational, and speech therapy are offered in a variety ...Read more >

• KFF Health News: To Keep Medicaid, Mom Caring for Disabled Adult Son Faces Prospect of Proving She Works

  July 10, 2025: Four years before Kimberly Gallagher enrolled in Medicaid herself, the public health insurance program’s rules prompted her to make an excruciating choice — to give up guardianship of her son so she could work as his caregiver. Now, another pr...Read more >

• New U.S. Census Data Shows High Immigration and an Aging Population

  July 04, 2025: In a new report by the U.S. Census Bureau, researchers found that immigration is a major driver of the country’s population growth and that while children outnumber seniors, seniors’ share of the population is rising. The percentage of the po...Read more >

• Social Security Administration Updates Website to Include New Office Closures

  July 04, 2025: The Social Security Administration has updated its “Office Closings and Emergencies” page to list several field offices as “only able to provide assistance by telephone until further notice.” These include the Hoboken and Toms River offices ...Read more >

• President Trump Signs Budget and Tax Bill That Guts Health Care Millions of Older Americans Rely On to Pad Pockets of the Ultra-Wealthy

  July 04, 2025: The Republican Budget Reconciliation bill was signed into law on Friday morning. The law includes the largest cuts to health care and taxes in United States history, trillions in tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans and corporations, and adds at lea...Read more >

• KFF Health News: Republican Megabill Will Mean Higher Health Costs for Many Americans

  July 03, 2025: President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” cuts federal spending on Medicaid and Affordable Care Act marketplaces by about $1 trillion over a decade, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, threatening the physical and ...Read more >

• KFF Health News: In a First, Trump and GOP-Led Congress Prepare To Swell Ranks of U.S. Uninsured

  June 30, 2025: CLARKESVILLE, Ga. — Last September, Alton Fry went to the doctor concerned he had high blood pressure. The trip would result in a prostate cancer diagnosis. So began the stress of trying to pay for tens of thousands of dollars in treatment — w...Read more >

• Senate Republicans Scramble to Pass Unpopular Budget Bill

  June 27, 2025: Senate GOP leaders are forging ahead despite broad opposition to their “big, beautiful” budget bill. Nearly two-thirds of Americans view it unfavorably, according to a new KFF poll. Earlier in the week, 15 vulnerable House Republicans sent a l...Read more >

• Social Security Administration Quietly Removes Customer Service Data Before Commissioner Testifies

  June 26, 2025: The Social Security Administration (SSA) stopped posting customer service performance metrics on its website, according to a new report from The Washington Post. The SSA website no longer has a “live data” section that shows current call wait tim...Read more >

• Alliance Marks LGBTQ+ Pride Month

  June 26, 2025: Throughout Pride Month, the Alliance aims to uplift the LGBTQ+ community, who face unique challenges in the workplace and play an essential role in championing labor justice. 1.8 percent of Americans over the age of 65 and at least 4 percent of the U...Read more >