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Expanding Retirement Security for All Workers: A Simple 3-Step Plan
How many of us want to retire with $3,000 in savings? That’s the median level of retirement savings held by American households. Not $3,000 a month. Not even $3,000 a year. $3,000 total. Yes, this is a crisis. Social Security will help millions…
The Senior Citizens League Predicts The Next Big Bail Out
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently released grim information about Social Security that went largely unnoticed; warns The Senior Citizens League (TSCL) a nonpartisan seniors organization. According to the CBO’s baseline of the Social Security Trust Fund the part of the program…
Obamacare’s Surprise Medicare Cut
One of the ways Obamacare aims to curb health costs is by encouraging home care for the elderly instead of expensive nursing homes and hospital stays. So home health providers were surprised to learn in November that they’ll be taking…
Disability pay: simpler, broader, more generous
The Pentagon’s new retirement reform proposal would make sweeping changes to the complex system of benefits that aim to compensate wounded warriors for injuries that cut short a military career. The new rules, proposed as one element of a broader military…
$1 million in ads to target Democrats on Medicare
Seizing on proposed Medicare Advantage cuts, the right-leaning American Action Network will unveil a $1 million ad campaign on Friday against three vulnerable Democratic senators and six House Democrats. Over the next two weeks, TV buys will be accompanied by mailings…
Bipartisan Lawmakers Defend Medicare
Leaders on the House Energy and Commerce Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee today lead a bipartisan group of nearly 50 lawmakers (http://lance.house.gov/uploads/SixProtectedClassesLetter.pdf) in opposing a proposed Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services rule that would eliminate protected class status for several categories of…
Disability Studies: Hot Topic on Campus
Disability, the subject of new federal hiring guidelines set to take effect this month, is already a hot topic on the campus of Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations. The school created a formal concentration on disability studies in…
Retirement readiness looks grim in many states, including NJ
Retirement readiness is grim across much of the country, an analysis released today shows. Nearly every state comes up short in key areas that gauge retirement readiness: anticipated retirement income, major retirement costs, such as housing and health care, and labor…
Disability insurer launches fundraising campaign for U.S. Paralympics
U.S. Paralympic snowboarders Evan Strong and Amy Purdy take flight in The Hartford’s new television commercials and shred stereotypes about people with physical disabilities. Strong is a test pilot and Purdy is a fighter in the high-flying ads that will…
Obama’s Budget Punts On Entitlements; Medicaid Debate Rankles States
Obama Budget Avoids Needed Entitlement And Tax Reform There is a lesson in this unexpected juxtaposition nevertheless: No nation can safely base its tax and spending plans on inflexible commitments. Political life, both domestic and international, is too unpredictable. Yet…