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Our cover this week.
April 24, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Our cover this week.
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You've been paying into Social Security for years, maybe some of you are collecting the benefits. You have a legal right to collect these benefits and have good service.
A 50% cut in the Social Security workforce is wrong.
CALL YOUR SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES NOW and encourage others to do so.
A 50% cut in the Social Security workforce is wrong.
CALL YOUR SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES NOW and encourage others to do so.
February 28, 2025 at 10:54 AM
You've been paying into Social Security for years, maybe some of you are collecting the benefits. You have a legal right to collect these benefits and have good service.
A 50% cut in the Social Security workforce is wrong.
CALL YOUR SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES NOW and encourage others to do so.
A 50% cut in the Social Security workforce is wrong.
CALL YOUR SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES NOW and encourage others to do so.
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We’ve got a friend in Wisconsin who said she wasn’t worried about potential cuts to Medicaid because she and her 3 kids don’t need it - they’re on BadgerCare. She was stunned when I told her they were all on Medicaid.
Protecting people from shame by renaming MA has definite downsides.
Protecting people from shame by renaming MA has definite downsides.
Why haven't we seen more backlash against the GOP's proposed cuts to Medicaid? One reason is that people may not know they're on Medicaid, because Medicaid has different names in different states (see 🧵). Another is that some people may not realize that they (or their kids) could qualify.
Many Medicaid recipients do not know they receive it because Medicaid is called different things in different states. The public narrative of Medicaid focuses on a distant other, but 40% of US children and 60% of nursing home residents receive Medicaid. Just SOME of the names by state are below:
February 28, 2025 at 12:18 AM
We’ve got a friend in Wisconsin who said she wasn’t worried about potential cuts to Medicaid because she and her 3 kids don’t need it - they’re on BadgerCare. She was stunned when I told her they were all on Medicaid.
Protecting people from shame by renaming MA has definite downsides.
Protecting people from shame by renaming MA has definite downsides.