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What do young Americans fear most about the future?
Moderating a studio audience edition of Fox News, Sean Hannity engages a group of informed representatives of the “Millennial Generation” in an insightful discussion on their views for the future. The “millenials”–sometimes referred to as “Generation Y”–are given a forum,…
9 Social Security Statistics That Will Surprise You
We’re all familiar with Social Security — with what it is and how it might help us in retirement. But there’s still a lot we don’t know about it, some of which is important and some simply interesting. A great place…
Harkin continues push for Social Security reforms
Heading into the final year of his Senate career before retirement, Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, is calling for reforms to Social Security to extend the life of the program and increase benefits to recipients. Read more… Notice: The “Read…
Speaker J. Dennis Hastert Joins AMAC Board Of Advisors
WASHINGTON, DC – Nov. 20, 2013 The Association of Mature American Citizens (AMAC), headquartered in Lady Lake, Florida, has announced that former Speaker Dennis Hastert has joined the AMAC Board of Advisors. “The addition of Speaker Hastert to the AMAC…
7 Reasons You Shouldn’t Fear Retirement
Many people panic at the thought of retirement. How can you live without a regular paycheck? What do you do every day if you don’t go to work? Well, stop and take a deep breath. Ignore all that anxious advice…
Elizabeth Warren: Don’t cut Social Security. Expand it!
If Elizabeth Warren is emerging as a kind of spokeswoman for the new economic populism that many Democratic activists want the party to embrace heading into 2014 and 2016, this speech that Warren is currently delivering on the floor of…
Economist looks into U.S. debt growth
Under the current U.S. course, the ratio of debt to annual output, which now is at 73 percent or twice what it was in 2007, will exceed 100 percent in the next 25 years, according to the Congressional Budget…
Senior Citizens Face Poverty as Obama Wants to Cut Social Security
We have seen what happens when we abandon elderly people who worked hard their whole lives but can’t physically do it anymore. The time was that senior citizens were more likely to be poor than any other Americans. The poverty rate among…
Study Highlights Challenges for Individuals with Lung Cancer …
This year, an estimated 228,000 new cases of lung cancer will be diagnosed and nearly 160,000 people will die from the disease, according to the National Cancer Institute. New research about treating lung cancer points to the importance of individuals…
Social Security benefits may be on table in budget talks
With congressional budget negotiations moving behind closed doors, one item apparently on the table is changing the way cost-of-living adjustments are calculated for seniors, veterans and other recipients of government benefits. The consumer price index, or CPI, is the government’s main…