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President Obama told the nation Tuesday that programs aimed at retirement security need reforming but don't offer the solution to the nation's deficit woes.
Let the truth be known: Older is wiser.
Let's cut through the rain, snow and heat over the U.S. Postal Service's big announcement this week and figure out what's really going on.
This video might leave you with the impression that nobody wants a proposed change for calculating cost-of-living adjustments (COLA). Not older Americans. Not veterans. Not women. Not labor. And certainly not independent U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont.
In a sort of mini-memoir, Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) lays out the struggles and introspection that sprang from his year-long battle to heal from an ischemic stroke.
As politicians squabble in the coming months over which federal programs to cut, Medicaid will be protected by a sort of favorite son status.
A generation of pessimists has spawned an enthusiastically upbeat generation of kids.
After every presidential inauguration, ambitious policy wonks scan a "plum book" of available appointments. But some jobs are more like prunes.
Military heroes, children of immigrants and all manner of older Americans brought their cold-weather gear and their hopes for the country to the second inauguration of President Barack Obama on Monday.
President Barack Obama made a forceful case for Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid in his second inaugural address Monday, surrounded by members of Congress who have clashed on what role those programs should play in solving the nation's budget problems.