Headlines: Alliance Commemorates Social Security’s 84th Anniversary; Action Needed: Tell Your Legislator to Put People Over Pharma Profits; Medicare Recipients Sue to Appeal “Observation Status” Coverage Gaps; Richard Fiesta Addresses A. Philip Ran…

Headlines: Alliance Chapters Celebrate Anniversaries, Salute Retiree Heroes; Eliminating Pensions for State Employees Costs Taxpayers More; Discrimination Contributed to Purging of Americans from Voter Rolls; Rhode Island and Virginia Alliances Hol…

Headlines: As Prescription Drug Prices Soar, Medicare and Medicaid Celebrate Anniversary; Alliance Members Cautiously Optimistic About Forthcoming Drug Reimportation Plan; Senate Finance Committee Holds Hearing on NAFTA 2.0; Richard Fiesta on the 2…

Dear Friend, 54 years ago today, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Medicare into law. Since then, generations of older Americans have had access to guaranteed affordable health care coverage. The single largest expense Medicare helps cover for its beneficiaries is p…

Headlines: In Significant Win for Retirees and Workers, Butch Lewis Act Passes House; Alliance Member Catherine Easterling Speaks Out on Drug Prices; Bridging Intergenerational Divides: Millennials Benefit from Social Security; Administration …

Dear Friend, It’s been a decade since the federal minimum wage was increased. The current minimum wage is just $7.25 an hour even though the cost of living is at an all-time high. A $15 minimum wage would give 40 million workers -- including 5.8 million Americans ove…

Dear Friend, One in four Americans believes they will never be able to stop working, according to a recent survey. But Fox News doesn’t care. This week the conservative network gave airtime to a guest who claimed that it’s a “great blessing” that people today don’t ha…

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Thank you for signing up for news from the Alliance for Retired Americans. Below is your first edition of our weekly newsletter with information on retirement security and related issues. Headlines: Speaker Pelosi’s Plan Would Extend Drug Price Protectio…