"I’ve been a union ironworker for 34 years. One year until retirement. I’ve worked on the World Trade Center, Citi Field, Museum of Natural History, Trump Tower, Penn Station. My fingerprints are on so many buildings in this city, it’s ridiculous."
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Seniors went to Capitol Hill earlier this month to tell Congress why their current #SocialSecurity benefits are inadequate. Boost Social Security Now! https://www.ncpssm.org/campaigns/boost-social-security-now/ @RepJohnLarson
Investment in home and community-based care is popular and must be included in #infrastructure. Now it’s up to Congress to get it done. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/04/opinion/elder-care-congress.html #HCBS @nytimes
Chiquita Brooks-LaSure becomes the first black woman to lead the agency that oversees #Medicare and #Medicaid. She is a major improvement over President Trump’s CMS administrator, who undermined Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/25/us/politics/chiquita-brooks-lasure-medicare-medicaid.html @CMSGov
A new analysis by the National Institute on Retirement Security shows that #WomensRetirement income lags behind men’s. Our #EleanorsHope initiative is dedicated to helping close the gap between women & men when it comes to retirement savings and benefits. https://www.ncpssm.org/eleanors-hope/
A key question that’s often left out of #retirement planning: Will seniors have enough income to afford the local cost of living?
President Biden’s 2022 spending plan is a welcome change for #seniors after four years of proposed budget cuts from Trump. https://www.ncpssm.org/entitledtoknow/biden-budget-bolsters-older-americans/
Sheryl Hagen isn’t old enough for Medicare yet. But she is one of more than a million people who signed up for the #AffordableCareAct since the Biden administration opened special enrollment. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/sea-change-subsidies-white-house-push-leads-surge-obamacare-sign-n1267466
“A so-called she-cession is poised to make the already existing #retirement gender gap worse,” writes @loriekonish for @cnbc. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/14/a-third-of-americans-plan-to-retire-later-due-to-covid-19-study-finds.html
As #Obamacare enrollment continues to hit record levels, let’s hope that the Supreme Court does not rip away health coverage from the millions of Americans who finally have it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/06/05/record-31-million-americans-have-health-care-coverage-through-affordable-care-act-white-house-says/
Retirement security is a big part of women’s economic well-being. We commit ourselves to pay equity and financial security for all women in #retirement. Learn what can be done about it at EleanorsHope.org.