Another day, another attack on Medicaid — and on the poor and working class. According to a little-noticed McClatchy report this week, Arizona, Kansas, Utah, Maine and Wisconsin have appealed to the Trump administration to seek permission to put lifetime limits on Medicaid coverage for recipients they deem able-bodied. In other words, those five states want to [...]
Two big items were missing from President Donald Trump's State of the Union address on Tuesday night: Medicare and Social Security. While these entitlement programs were absent from the President's speech, together they take up almost all of the government's mandatory spending. "The harm of neglecting them is they're underfunded," said Howard Gleckman, a [...]
Recently, my accountant suggested I start taking Social Security benefits. I’m 67, and if I make it to 79 — the average lifespan for an American male — Social Security will pay me about $500,000. Fortunately, I don’t need the money. With our government drowning in debt, I don’t understand the logic in Uncle [...]
Economic opportunity for all is the cornerstone of the American dream. There are many individuals, however, who face obstacles in reaching this opportunity because of their disability. These individuals have just as strong a desire to be self-sufficient as individuals without disabilities, but desire alone is not enough; the labor force participation rate for [...]
“It takes a couple of years for these folks to become eligible for the Social Security Disability Insurance program, at which point they have been out of the job market for a long time and usually without prospects.” More than 56 million Americans live with a disability. The unemployment rate among this population is [...]