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ABLE: Opening doors of economic inclusion for persons with disabilities
What if millions of persons with disabilities were able to Achieve a Better Life Experience? The Achieve a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Act provides a pathway to independence for persons with disabilities, not an entitlement. ABLE empowers persons with disabilities to pro-actively…
3 Ways To Avoid Being Part Of The Upcoming Retirement Crisis
I ran across an interesting article this week from the Boston Globe with another dire warning about retirement in America. It profiles the work of Alicia Munnell, a former top economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston who is…
Failure to Communicate: Democrats Say They Must Improve Their Message For ’16
A month after their drubbing in the midterm elections, Democrats and liberal commentators have debated the path the party should take as it heads into the 2016 presidential contest. Should it craft a more populist (and anti-Wall Street) position? Should it focus…
Social Security seeks to aid homeless
December 21 is National Homeless Persons’ Memorial Day. Since 1990, on or near the first day of winter and the longest night of the year, the National Coalition for the Homeless brings attention to and seeks compassion for the homeless…
Disney Noncommittal On Adding Characters With Disabilities
TIOCH, Calif. — The mother of a toddler with Down syndrome has made good on her promise to hand deliver a petition to The Walt Disney Studios asking the company to include more characters with disabilities in its movies. But the…
Half Of Medicaid Providers Unavailable, Report Finds
A significant number of doctors purportedly accepting Medicaid are not actually offering treatment to the program’s beneficiaries, a new investigation finds. More than half of primary care providers and specialists polled were not able to offer appointments to patients on Medicaid,…
Consumers still pay bigger share for healthcare than government and businesses
U.S. households continued to see medical bills and premiums erode their financial footing last year, even as consumer spending on healthcare and insurance slowed, the results of two recent reports suggest. Households spent $824 billion last year on insurance premiums…
A Breakdown of How Your Social Security Tax Dollars Are Spent
There are few issues that are more polarizing for Americans than Social Security. Social Security is designed to be a program that protects lower-income retirees, as well as family members of deceased workers and the disabled, from financial hardship. However, Social…
Senate Prepares to Approve Surgeon General Nomination; Groups Offer Medicare Suggestions
The Senate, after passing the fiscal 2015 omnibus funding bill on Saturday, does not want to leave too quickly. A few items remain on the agenda over the next two days. Today, senators will vote to confirm the nomination of…
Special Ed, Disability Programs Unscathed In Budget Deal
A spending plan making its way through Congress is a win for people with disabilities, advocates say, more for what it doesn’t do than what it does Most federal programs supporting people with disabilities will maintain level funding under the $1.1…