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• Seniors Should be Inspired by the Next Generation of Activists

  February 23, 2018: By Robert Roach, Jr. President Alliance for Retired Americans By now we have all heard about the dreadful assault at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida on Valentine's Day which killed 17 people. Out of Read More >

• Senate Passes Budget that Slashes Medicare and Medicaid, Offers More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy

  October 20, 2017: The U.S. Senate voted 51-49 on Thursday to pass a budget that requires cuts of $473 billion from Medicare and about $1 trillion from Medicaid over the next 10 years. The measure is estimated to add $1.5 trillion to the deficit ove Read More >

• Retirees Stand with Those Targeted in Las Vegas

  October 05, 2017: Senseless Violence Threatens the American Way of Life, Affects us All Robert Roach, Jr., President of the Alliance for Retired Americans, released the following statement regarding the terrorism in Las Vegas last weekend: Read More >

• Update on Alliance Efforts to Help with Gulf Coast Disaster Relief

  September 06, 2017: The Texas Alliance for Retired Americans (TARA) has been leading national Alliance efforts to pitch in on Gulf Coast disaster relief. The Alliance encourages that donations go to the Texas Worker Relief Fund, and several members h Read More >

• Missouri Retirees Help Force Suspension of Anti-worker State Law

  August 24, 2017: Missouri Alliance members and other activists forced the suspension Friday of a new anti-worker state law before it goes into effect, delivering dozens of boxes of signed petitions demanding it be put to a public vote in 2018. Read More >

• Americans Keep their Health Care as Repeal Bill Fails in Senate

  August 04, 2017: In a major victory for older Americans concerned about health care costs, the Senate failed to pass a partial repeal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) last Friday. Republican Senators Susan Collins (ME), Lisa Murkowski (AK), Read More >

• Retiree Voting Record Released

  June 05, 2017: President Roach: “We clearly need changes in our leadership” Washington, DC – The Alliance for Retired Americans today released its 2016 voting record report which scored every U.S. Representative and Senator on issues affe Read More >

• The Alliance is Leading the Fight to Protect the Three-Legged Stool

  March 06, 2017: Americans for decades have planned to live the American Dream in retirement through the three-legged stool of pensions, savings and Social Security. This dream has been threatened by wage stagnation, low interest rates, and corpor Read More >

• Retirees a Key Part of Protest Marches

  January 23, 2017: [Best_Wordpress_Gallery id="12" gal_title="Womens Marches 2017"] Retirees were a key part of the worldwide movement that Saturday’s protest marches represented. For Alliance members, like many of the activists, the protests w Read More >

• Robert Roach Jr. Talks about Retirement with Dignity and Hillary Clinton

  August 15, 2016: While attending the 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Alliance President Robert Roach, Jr. spoke to the DNC Seniors Council on the importance of retirement security and what we can expect from a Hillary Clinton Read More >