Tag: retirement
For decades, the Medicaid program has subsidized health care for the poor, including retirees. Yet, until recently, it largely excluded most working-age adults without disabilities due to a strict monthly income limit. All that changed in the 32 states and the District of Columbia that accepted the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) option to expand their…
West Virginia teachers started the wave of strikes over pay. Photo courtesy of Janet Bass, American Federation of Teachers Teachers’ strikes and walkouts over inadequate pay – in Arizona, Kentucky, Louisiana, North Carolina, Oklahoma, and West Virginia – are making news this spring. In Oklahoma, half the people who’ve left teaching recently said pay was their…
