22 Health Care Services You Get Free With Medicare “Few senior discounts are worth as much as the savings you get through Medicare health insurance”. Medicare is federally subsidized. So, having a Medicare insurance plan typically is cheaper than buying a health insurance plan on your own. Medicare is not free — there are premiums, […]
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The Dismantling Of Lender Watchdog
Payday Loans: Neglected by U.S. Watchdog? “Our Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is being systematically dismantled by Trump administration with assistance from his republican colleagues in congress. What can we do to stop this travesty? The fight should be ongoing and clearly decisive” Grassroots advocates and low-income families are increasingly calling attention to high-interest payday loans, […]
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Saving Money On Prescription Drugs
10 Expert Tips for Slashing Prescription Drug Costs “In our effort to bring each of our readers solutions for reducing your cost outlay and keeping your daily financial cost down we find articles that benefit you in achieving that end result. Below is an article I found for reducing your prescription drug cost that could […]
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Slashing Food Cost
Six Ways Your Phone Can Slash Grocery Costs Food is among the biggest expenses in the average American family’s budget. And we don’t make it any easier on ourselves by dining out so often in restaurants. The average household in the U.S. spends $7,203 per year on food, with $3,154 of that total spent on […]
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Medicaid Hostile To Poor
Medicaid hostile to poor, pay up or no coverage Indiana is at the leading edge of Republican efforts to shift Medicaid in a more conservative direction — with the Trump administration giving the green light to states to shift some of the burden for the program onto the poor. Indiana began asking the destitute to […]
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Our Earned Benefits
Republicans Attacking Our Earned Benefits Over the last year, Republicans in Congress have on numerous occasions attempted to destroy Medicare and Medicaid, while handing trillions in tax breaks to millionaires and billionaires. And now Trump’s budget reaffirms congressional Republicans’ attack on our earned benefits, that include a proposed $1.8 trillion in cut to Social Security, […]
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Survival Of Our Democracy
The Survival Of Our Democracy “A Thriving Middle Class” Democracies do not last long without a strong middle class. I believe unless we make significant changes today, the income inequality in our country will continue to grow and call into question the very nature of our social contract. It’s a fundamental idea behind America, […]
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Neo-Nazis Threatens School
Neo-Nazis target Florida school with death threats “With the school shooting in South Florida yesterday this article highlights a dangerous situation the Trump Administration & Republicans state and local governments have created with their glance over response to gun legislation and alt-right support” A high school in Florida has been receiving harassing emails and phone […]
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Local Government Loan Sharking
Jailing the Poor for Fines and Bail Is a Government-Operated Loan Shark Operation The criminalization of poverty by the mass incarceration system is slowly changing, but you can hear the creaking. Egregious scams inflicted on the poor and prospects for reform are being fought hard by local governmental agencies because this loan shark operation […]
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Payday Lenders Urban Vultures
Payday Lenders Are Somehow Even Worse Than ‘Dirty Money’ Makes Them Look Our Consumer Financial Protection Board founded by then Elizabeth Warren while President Obama was sitting at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue The CFPB is now under serious attack by The Trump Administration which wants to unleash the vultures onto our community. All efforts to […]