The following statement was issued by Richard Fiesta, Executive Director of the Alliance for Retired Americans, regarding Trustees reports issued today on the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds: “The Social Security and Medicare trustees today confirmed that Social Secur... Read more
CHICAGO, IL – Governor Bruce Rauner marked this month’s 20th anniversary of the Chicago heat wave by withholding funds that provide cooling assistance to the state’s most vulnerable residents. Many of the 1995 heat wave’s 739 fatalities were low-income and elderly, the... Read more
What a response! The Alliance just delivered more than 226,000 signatures to Nora Super, the Executive Director of the White House Conference on Aging, urging the White House to include Social Security expansion in next week’s conference. Momentum is on our side. Right now, ... Read more
Washington, DC - Beginning on Tuesday, July 7, at 1:00 pm, four hundred activist members of the Alliance for Retired Americans from across the country will sharpen their political organizing and advocacy skills at a four-day conference at the Washington Hilton. Attendees will vis... Read more
Supreme Court Ruling Keeps Premiums Affordable for those not Eligible for Medicare The following statement was issued today by Richard Fiesta, Executive Director of the Alliance for Retired Americans following the U.S. Supreme Court decision in the case of King v. Burwell: â€... Read more
The following statement was issued today by Richard Fiesta, Executive Director of the Alliance for Retired Americans, following the U.S. House votes on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Fast Track Authority legislative package. “Today’s votes in the U.S. House showed that cuts... Read more
The House Republican leadership is pushing to bring Fast Track legislation for the job-killing, retiree-hurting, Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal to a vote soon. The Fast Track bill has already passed in the Senate, and if approved by the House, it would allow secret... Read more
Washington, DC – The Alliance for Retired Americans today released its 2014 voting record report which scored every U.S. Representative and Senator on key issues affecting current and future retirees. The voting record examined 10 key Senate votes and 10 key House votes in 2014... Read more
The Senate voted 51 to 48 on Tuesday to pass the first joint congressional budget plan in six years, ratifying a 10-year blueprint that would cut spending by $5.3 trillion, overhaul Medicaid by turning it into block grants, and repeal President Obama’s health care law. The budg... Read more