We are saddened to hear about this horrible tragedy. We are keeping all of New Zealand in our thoughts today.
The U.S. economy generated 156,000 new jobs in September, according to the monthly jobs report released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The results did not meet expectations: Economists had predicted between 170,000 and 176,000 new jobs for September.
via NPR.
Veteran journalist Cokie Roberts, who joined an upstart NPR in 1978 and left an indelible imprint on the growing network with her coverage of Washington politics before later going to ABC News, has died. She was 75.
Roberts died Tuesday due to complications from breast cancer, according to a family statement.
A bestselling author and Emmy Award winner, Roberts was one of NPR’s most recognizable voices and is considered one of a handful of pioneering female journalists — along with Nina Totenberg, Linda Wertheimer and Susan Stamberg — who helped shape the public broadcaster’s sound and culture at a time when few women held prominent roles in journalism.
Having so many female voices at a national broadcaster was nothing short of revolutionary in the 1970s, NPR national political correspondent Mara Liasson recalled in an interview with The Daily Princetonian earlier this year.
“[W]e called them the Founding Mothers of NPR, or sometimes we called them the Fallopian Club,” she said.
Liasson said it wasn’t so much that NPR had a mission for gender equality, but that the network’s pay, which was well below the commercial networks of the day, resulted in “a lot of really great women who were in prominent positions there and who helped other women.”
By the time Roberts joined ABC News in 1988 — while retaining a part-time role as a political commentator at NPR that she maintained until her death — women were increasingly commonplace at broadcast networks and newspapers.
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Medicare News:
Fact check: Romney’s charge on Obama’s $716-billion Medicare cut. - Los Angeles Times
Obama: Mitt Romney Would Turn Medicare Into Private Voucher System. - Huffington Post
Election News:
Romney embraces his health care plan. - Washington Post
How Will The Election Change Medicaid? - Kaiser Health News
Obama-Romney Debate: Romney Overstates Obamacare’s Effect On Job-Based Health Insurance. - Huffington Post
Social Security:
Social Security, Medicare. - Politico
Murphy tells seniors McMahon a threat to Social Security. - The Day
Full Transcript from Yesterday’s Debate:
Proponents of the move say that association health plans, which could be offered by trade groups, chambers of commerce or groups of small businesses, would not be bound by Affordable Care Act regulations that require insurance policies to cover everyone, no matter their health status, and to cover a specific set of benefits.
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Good News For Social Security Beneficiaries…For a Change. - Entitled to Know.
Obama drops Social Security cut. - The Hill.
Obama hands progressives a win on Social Security. - Chicago Sun-Times.
Obama budget proposal to drop Social Security cuts. - Reuters.
Feeling pressure from the left, Obama backs off of Social Security cuts in budget. - Washington Times.
Obama Budget to Delete Proposal to Limit Social Security. - Bloomberg.
White House drops chained Consumer Price Index for Social Security. - Daily Kos.
Obama’s Budget Drops Big Social Security Cut. - Fire Dog Lake.
GOP’s Social Security disaster: Conservatives just lost their chance to cut benefit. - Salon.
Chained CPI Out of Obama Budget! Victory for the New Populists. - Huffington Post.
How John Boehner Spared Democrats Their Own Civil War. - National Journal.
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Social Security News:
“Young voters face conflicting visions of Social Security’s future” - Sun Sentinel
“Teaching Social Security, With and Without Prejudice” - The People’s Pension
“Dear Mitt Romney: ‘I Am the 47 Percent’” - Huffington Post
“Obama Revives Social Security Idea: Raise Payroll Tax Cap To Replenish Fund” - Huffington Post
“Health Care Reform To Ease Health Insurance Shopping With Plain-Language Paperwork” - Huffington Post
Medicare News:
“Medicare recipients save $4.5 billion on prescriptions” - USA Today
“The Romney-Ryan Medicare Plan is Bad for Students and Seniors” - Viva Roosevelt
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/
