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Happy 78 th birthday, Social Security. Since FDR signed you into law on Aug. 14, 1935, you've survived wars, budget cuts and changing demographics. Today you may be older than most of your beneficiaries, but you're still central to secure retirement.
The August recess gives Capitol Hill lawmakers a chance to hear from their constituents back home, and sometimes that earful is downright heartbreaking.
Is your hospital's revolving door turning too quickly?
A Washington Post story by investigative reporters Peter Whoriskey and Dan Keating has drawn plenty of attention to a little-known committee of doctors that establishes values for each medical procedure, which in turn affects how much Medicare and private insurers pay for them.
The average monthly premium for a basic prescription drug plan under Medicare Part D will be just $1 higher next year, the government projects.
A bipartisan group in Congress has introduced legislation to remedy two Supreme Court decisions that have made it far more difficult for older workers to prove that they have suffered from illegal discrimination because of their age.
Is there bias in the U.S. criminal justice system? Unpublished data from a recent Gallup poll point up marked differences in views divided not only by race but also by age.
First the bad news: Gasoline prices are at a summertime high.
Mother knows best. And backers of the new health care law want young adults to start listening when their moms say they need to have health insurance.
Nearly every week brings new stories and statistics about how tough the job market is for older Americans. (A headline earlier this year in the New York Times: "In Hard Economy for All Ages, Older Isn't Better ... It's Brutal."