Retirement Security

• IARA Hosts Older Americans Month 2022

  May 25, 2022: The Illinois Alliance for  Retired Americans hosted two great Older Americans Month Townhalls with Congresswoman Lauren Underwood and Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky. As part of the event, we awarded these two champions of seniors with the ...Read more >

• Illinois Seniors Win Big with Budget Victories

  April 19, 2022: The Illinois Alliance for Retired Americans is celebrating key victories passed in the Fiscal Year 2023 Budget passed by the Illinois General Assembly in April. Governor Pritzker signed a balanced budget that includes $1.8 billion in tax relief, a...Read more >

• TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT PENSIONS!

  March 09, 2022: Connect with your legislators using this hotline provided  by AFSCME Council 31 for anyone to use: 877.890.2056 Tell them: “Do the right thing now! Support the plan for an additional $500 million payment toward the state’s pension debt. On M...Read more >

• Pass Build Back Better for Seniors!

  December 30, 2021:   On November 19th, 2021, the House voted 220-213 to pass the Build Back Better Act, H.R. 5376, sending President Biden’s sweeping plan to invest in middle class families and expand long-awaited social programs to the U.S. Senate. The ...Read more >

• Drunita Steward – Chicago Teachers Union

  December 10, 2021: Drunita Steward taught secondary mathematics  for over 35 years and has served as a Chicago Teachers Union delegate for over 45 years both as an Active Teacher and a Retired Teacher. Her roles at CTU include District Supervisor and organizer for...Read more >

• Gail Donnelly Bader, YWCA of Southwest Illinois

  December 10, 2021: Gail Donnelly Bader spent her career in law. She received her B.S. Central Michigan University; JD Washington University at St. Louis (Order of the Coif) and has been the recipient of the  Woman of DIstinction award and the Joseph R. Bartylak Pro ...Read more >

• Scott Marshall – SOAR

  December 09, 2021: Scott Marshall spent his career in manufacturing and is the International Vice President of the Steelworkers Organization of Active Retirees. Scott is committed to justice, and anti-racist action spurring from his early involvement with the civil...Read more >

• Miller Rodgers – UAW Local 6

  December 09, 2021: Miller Rodgers worked as an assembler, repairman, and in maintenance at the International Harvester Company diesel engine plant in Melrose Park, where he was a proud member of United Auto Workers Local 6. For more than 15 years he served as a tru...Read more >

• Jacklyn Naughton – Illinois Federation of Teachers

  October 11, 2021:   Jacklyn Naughton is the Secretary of the Illinois Alliance for Retired Americans, as well as the Retiree Chair for the North Suburban Teachers Union. She has her MS in Cellular and Molecular Biology and spent her career as a science teacher...Read more >

• Jane Russell – West Suburban Teachers Union / Illinois Federation of Teachers

  October 08, 2021: Jane Russell has been a champion for working people and public education for more than four decades. She is currently the Secretary Treasurer for the Illinois Federation of Teachers, the Secretary of the North Central Illinois Labor Council, has ...Read more >