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nbcnightlynews: “ 68 years since he last sat in a classroom, 96-year-old World War II veteran Bob Barger graduated with an associate’s degree from the University of Toledo on Saturday. After serving as a Navy pilot in the war, Barger returned home to...
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68 years since he last sat in a classroom, 96-year-old World War II veteran Bob Barger graduated with an associate’s degree from the University of Toledo on Saturday. After serving as a Navy pilot in the war, Barger returned home to Toledo and started taking college classes, but never finished his degree because he was busy with a job and raising a family. The school recently reviewed his transcripts from the late 1940s after he struck up a friendship with Haraz Ghanbari, a Navy Reserve officer and the school’s director of military and veteran’s affairs. The transcripts showed he had enough credits to qualify for the two-year diploma - something which was not offered when he was attending classes. “It was something I never dreamed of,” Barger said.

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The Middle-Class Squeeze
America’s middle class is being squeezed by stagnant—and in many cases declining—incomes and rising costs. To address the middle-class squeeze, we need to enact policies that will both increase incomes and also address rising child care, higher education, health care, housing, and retirement costs.
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Forty, fifty or even sixty years ago, mention the phrase “working class” and most folks understood that to mean “blue collar” laborers such as a machinist, waitress, plumber, cop, production line worker, or housekeeper. Blue collar workers generally...

Forty, fifty or even sixty years ago, mention the phrase “working class” and most folks understood that to mean “blue collar” laborers such as a machinist, waitress, plumber, cop, production line worker, or housekeeper. Blue collar workers generally wore a uniform. These were people who left high school with or without a degree and who became employed in skilled and non-skilled lower wage jobs.  These laborers were in sharp contrast to the college educated “white collar” professionals such as a plant manager, engineer, lawyer, teacher, scientist, business administrator or dentist.

Fast forward to 2017 the white and blue-collar labels are fading away. Younger generations don’t even use this terminology. Why? Because America’s working class is more frequently defined as anyone who earns a wage regardless of their level of education, what they wear to work or whether they sit at a computer, stand in front of a class or lay flooring in a new home.

via What is the Working Class?

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Today, we are announcing the rollout of our new education initiative, Delay and Gain! We will be highlighting the benefits of delaying retirement in order to receive more Social Security benefits.You can learn more by clicking here.

Today, we are announcing the rollout of our new education initiative, Delay and Gain! We will be highlighting the benefits of delaying retirement in order to receive more Social Security benefits.

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“The Trump administration is setting aside a middle-class tax cut and planning to focus its tax efforts next year on fixing mistakes in the 2017 overhaul, according to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. Mnuchin said he’s hoping to work with Congress...

The Trump administration is setting aside a middle-class tax cut and planning to focus its tax efforts next year on fixing mistakes in the 2017 overhaul, according to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.

Mnuchin said he’s hoping to work with Congress on “some minor technical corrections” to the law, such as a drafting error that denies retailers and restaurants a tax break when they make renovations. He downplayed the prospect of the middle-class tax cut that Trump campaigned on in the days leading up to the midterm elections.

via Bloomberg.

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Sorry, Pew — America is in a class war, not a generational war
Young people and the elderly vote differently, but the gap that matters in American politics is about class and ideology not generations.

America is in a class war…not generational war. Americans of all ages agree on the need to preserve and strengthen Social Security, so why do so many try to pit young versus old?

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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

Chiquita Brooks-LaSure becomes the first Black administrator confirmed to lead Medicare and Medicaid.
The vote was 55 to 44, with five Republicans joining Democrats to support her confirmation.
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