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The U.S. electric grid has a Baby Boomer Social Security problem
In the decades immediately following World War II, the United States saw two major waves of births: the Baby Boomer generation and a new fleet of largely coal-fired power plants (and the transmission and distribution infrastructure to deliver that electricity to America’s…
Accessiblity On Campus Still A Concern For Some Students
For most students, a small wheelchair symbol embossed on a pole with the words “Lyons Hall” and a left-facing arrow will quickly blend into the rest of the Quad. The fact that the construction space next to St. Mary’s Hall…
AgrAbility of Wisconsin helps farmers
“I could wiggle my fingers, I could wiggle my toes. I kept thinking, I’m not that bad,” said Gary Stankowski. In November of 2012, Stankowski was injured in a tractor accident while traveling on the road near his farm. His…
Medicare attack ads surface despite little chance of changes
Democratic Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes, who is challenging Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in Kentucky, repeatedly has sidestepped questions about whether she would have voted for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.But the Grimes’ campaign last month released a…
Home healthcare minimum wage enforcement delayed six months
The Department of Labor is delaying plans to enforce a rule that called for minimum wage and overtime requirements for home healthcare workers. The rule is still effective as of Jan. 1, 2015, but the agency won’t enforce it until June 30, 2015,…
Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
“We need to strengthen and save Social Security for today’s workers. If we don’t act now, this system, born out of the New Deal, will become a bad deal.”
6 new protections against the Chase mystery breach
The security breach at JPMorgan Chase, which compromised the names, addresses, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses of 76 million households and seven million small businesses, remains something of a mystery, and that means consumers should take precautions even though the…
Wal-Mart cuts health benefits for some part-timers
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. plans to eliminate health insurance coverage for some of its part-time U.S. employees in a move aimed at controlling rising health care costs of the nation’s largest private employer. Wal-Mart told The Associated Press that starting Jan.…
Social Security Launches National Disability Coalition, Holds Inaugural Meeting
In July, the Social Security Administration (SSA) established a National Disability Coalition aimed at providing “an opportunity for all interested stakeholders to share their unique insights on topics of particular interest to Social Security early in the process and directly…
11 Things You Didn’t Know Your Local Pharmacy Does
Think pharmacies are only about antibiotics and condoms? Think again. You can get vaccinations, blood pressure readings, specially packaged medications and many other perks. In some cities you can even see a doctor in the drugstore. How convenient is that…