budget crisis
“Ageing and raging” seniors demand Calif. budget
September 21, 2010There were signs: "So they take from the sick and the poor!" "Seniors count - seniors care!" "Ageing and raging!" and there were songs: "Let's put the home care in and take the tax cuts out!"
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30,000 mentally ill may be cut off in Texas
September 20, 2010The national average for mental health care spending is $103 per capita, but in Texas, it is $34, yet the state Legislature is planning drastic cuts.
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Budget impasse hurts millions of Californians
September 1, 2010Programs affecting millions of Californians face a double-whammy: delays in funding, and uncertainty about what funding they will ultimately receive.
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“Most successful social insurance” celebrates 75th birthday with a warning
August 17, 2010“We are here today to celebrate it, and to demand that our elected officials keep their hands off of it,” said Nan Brasmer of the California Alliance of Retired Americans.
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Social Security at 75 is under attack, again
August 16, 2010"There is no tragedy in growing old, but there is tragedy in growing old without means of support,"President Franklin Delano Roosevelt said in 1934.
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