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• Alert: Scammers Using Alliance Logo to Obtain Banking Information

  May 16, 2022: The Alliance has received reports of someone using the Alliance logo maliciously in order to obtain people's personal data and banking information. The scammer claims to be helping the recipient get lottery and/or Publishers Clearing House winnings t...Read more >

• Older Americans Month: A Chance to Put Aside Stereotypes About Aging

  May 16, 2022: Americans’ stereotypes about growing older have real consequences for the country’s aging population. Through the process of structural ageism, media portrayals of older people as senile, sick, or unproductive have become ingrained in our institu...Read more >

• American Covid Death Toll Hits One Million

  May 16, 2022: The nation has reached a grim milestone as more than 1 million lives have now been lost to the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States. That includes more than 150,000 nursing home residents, as the facilities’ close quarters enabled the virus to sp...Read more >

• New Campaign Ads Focus on Sen. Scott’s Plans for Medicare, Social Security

  May 16, 2022: A new ad campaign launched this week focused on Sen. Rick Scott's (FL) plan to "sunset" Social Security and Medicare after five years. Scott is the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, which recruits and supports Republican candi...Read more >

• Kaiser Health News: Why Won’t More Older Americans Get Their Covid Booster?

  May 13, 2022: Even as top U.S. health officials say it’s time America learns to live with the coronavirus, a chorus of leading researchers say faulty messaging on booster shots has left millions of older people at serious risk. Approximately 1 in 3 American...Read more >

• COVID-19 Death Toll Among Older Americans Still Rising

  May 09, 2022: Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, unvaccinated people have accounted for a majority of COVID-19 deaths in the United States. But, in recent months, an alarming number of vaccinated older and disabled Americans have succumbed to the disease. For...Read more >

• Alliance Facilitates Partnership with Labor Movement, SUNY to Help Students with Family, Financial Obligations

  May 09, 2022: Building on a mentorship program that the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAMAW) established with Aviation High School in Long Island City, New York, the Alliance has helped bring together the American Federation of Tea...Read more >

• White House Issues “Older Americans Month” Proclamation

  May 09, 2022: The White House has officially proclaimed the month of May “Older Americans Month,” outlining a number of programs and resources that will help seniors remain safe and healthy as they age. President Biden noted that the American Rescue Plan, p...Read more >

• Kaiser Health News: Medicare Surprise – Drug Plan Prices Touted During Open Enrollment Can Rise Within a Month

  May 03, 2022: Something strange happened between the time Linda Griffith signed up for a new Medicare prescription drug plan during last fall’s enrollment period and when she tried to fill her first prescription in January. She picked a Humana drug pl...Read more >

• Sen. Warren, Experts Highlight Executive Actions to Lower Drug Prices

  May 02, 2022: In a letter to HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra, Senator Elizabeth Warren (MA) outlined a number of executive actions that the Biden administration could take to lower the cost of prescription drugs. Backed by legal and medical experts from Yale Law S...Read more >