seniors

SNAP expansion helped me survive as a poor senior, but now it’s gone

May 31, 2023 By Joyce Kendrick

There are things about being poor that people don’t understand until it happens to them.

Wall Street moves to privatize Medicare

April 6, 2022 By Tim Wheeler

In Congress, Rep. Pramila Jayapal is leading the resistance. On the ground, it’s groups like Puget Sound Advocates for Retirement Action.

Trump judges blow big hole in age discrimination law

February 15, 2019 By Mark Gruenberg

When Congress enacted the ADEA in 1967, its drafters had no reason to expect judges would be acting as grammarians. Then, the Supreme Court and lower courts interpreted anti-discrimination laws as broadly as possible

Anti-Trump movement can’t take seniors’ vote for granted

September 21, 2018 By Eric A. Gordon

Policy doesn't change unless there’s a mass movement to change it. Seniors are standing strong in that mass movement.

Russian Communists move to block Putin’s plan to raise retirement age

August 14, 2018 By Morning Star

For men, Putin wants to raise the pension age to 65, but Russian male life expectancy is only 66. For women, the new retirement age would be 63.