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Public Supports Social Security Wage Tax Increase
Patrol the halls of Congress and you’d be hard-pressed to find any lawmaker that knows what is being done to fix the Social Security financing gap. As it stands right now, there will be enough funds available to pay out…
Congress finds cause to agree on: Disability assistance
Congress is set to approve the first major piece of legislation affecting Americans with disabilities in nearly 25 years with sweeping, bipartisan support. “It’s a good opportunity to show how we can work together,” said Rep. Ander Crenshaw, R-Fla., the…
In Year Two, Obamacare Is Off to Another Bad Start
The implementation of the Affordable Care Act seems like an unending nightmare. Desperate for some good news, the White House is justly relieved and celebrating the fact that the government website is not plagued with last year’s disasters. But other big…
White House provides mass pardon for identity thieves
President Obama is poised to show his “compassion” this week by granting work cards to an estimated five million illegal immigrants through an imperial executive order. As for the vast, untold number of law-abiding citizens whose identities have been stolen…
Americans Can’t Afford Higher Electricity Prices
Electricity is an indispensable necessity of life and Americans can’t afford policies that raise its cost (Figures 1,2). EPA regulations such as the new carbon rule are driving prices higher and the next wave of cost increases looms on the…
Upfront Costs Of Going Digital Overwhelm Some Doctors
Dr. Oliver Korshin practices ophthalmology three days a week in the same small office in east Anchorage he’s had for three decades. Many of his patients have aged into their Medicare years right along with him. For his tiny practice,…
How will you retire? Half of us have nothing saved …
Nancy Hardendorf is about to step into the great unknown for middle-class Americans: retirement. “I think everybody is afraid … you never think that there’s going to be enough [money],” said Hardendorf, an administrator at Johnson & Wales University. As many of…
Advocates and Recipients of Social Security Benefits Fear Budget Cuts
Social Security advocates gathered on Capital Hill this week in an attempt to stop cuts to the program that serves almost all Americans. Anxiety is growing over cuts to the Social Security program as the GOP will take control of…
Deconstructing Social Security rules for remarriage
I read an astounding statistic the other day: 40% of all newlyweds in 2013 were previously married or widowed. According to a recent report from Pew Research Center, 42 million Americans took their second (or third) trip down the aisle…
Revamp VA disability benefits
The United States owes an incalculable debt of gratitude to its military veterans. It also owes them something more tangible — timely and appropriate treatment and compensation for disabilities tied to their service. But the Veterans Administration and members of…