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Tag: social security

  • Prof Patty
  • January 20, 2022

Biggest Social Security Changes for 2022

by John Waggoner, AARP, December 28, 2021  5.9 percent cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) to monthly retirement checks and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) checks.  Medicare Par

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  • Prof Patty
  • December 17, 2021December 17, 2021

Social Security Information Dec 2021

Retirees in these 13 states play by different Social Security rules CHRISTY BIEBER | THE MOTLEY FOOL | Dec 6, 2021 These are the 13 states where Social Security rules for retirees ar

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  • Prof Patty
  • October 20, 2020

Social Security COLA Set at 1.3 Percent for 2021

Small boost to monthly benefits starting in January due to low inflation by John Waggoner, AARP, October 13, 2020 The Social Security Administration (SSA) announced on Oct. 13 that its annual

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https://youtu.be/2Szdo6fRc5c?si=v5R7RC_qW9j17to2

NY Times

  • A.I. Companies Are Recruiting Electricians and Carpenters by the Thousands
  • Senators Cornyn and Tillis Threaten to Block Blanche Nomination Over Trump’s IRS Deal
  • Canada’s Answer to Trump’s Tariffs: More Energy Deals With Europe
  • Families Face Anxiety, Angst as Loved Ones Are Deployed to Fight Iran
  • The Silicon Valley Health Trend Making Doctors Nervous
https://youtu.be/PrM5Te05Xmg?si=0u9np_T2c0cLK0L3

NPR

  • How to catch this week's meteor showers, despite the full moon
  • Anthony Fauci invokes Fifth Amendment in Rand Paul Senate hearing
  • In France and Spain, the battle to contain wildfires faces another heatwave
  • Death toll rises to 18 as rescuers comb through quake rubble in southwestern Japan
  • Rand Paul releases Anthony Fauci's pandemic-era diary notes. Here's what they tell us
https://youtu.be/EAys2d29EXo?si=91f17xP95m4KfIls

The Progressive

  • Remaking Democracy
  • Data Center Issue Can Empower Rural Areas
  • Enduring a Pregnancy in Gaza
  • The Burning
  • The ADA: The Boulder and the Hill
https://youtu.be/N82Nk7DIlrA?si=ONHe-_8fZiwYSfSS

FactCheck.org

  • Major Driver of Worsening Canadian Wildfires Is Climate Change, Not Forest Mismanagement
  • One Big Beautiful Bill Not (Yet) Driving ACA, Medicaid Declines
  • Trump’s Numbers, July 2026 Update
  • Democrats Overstate Role of Monitoring Program Change in Parasitic Outbreak
  • Trump’s Distorted Venezuela Elections Claim
https://youtu.be/lw037FQ39dg?si=BB5YmOTjtcgXNBjK

Snopes.com

  • 11 claims about US-China relations from our archives
  • Alleged 'Stacy is Right' X post about Trump, Epstein list is fake
  • Did Fauci suffer pulmonary infarction due to COVID-19 vaccine? What we know
  • Did Trump really order 250 Cadillac Escalades for his motorcade, as he claimed?
  • DHS claimed 250K noncitizens are registered to vote across 4 states. Here's the truth
https://youtu.be/5IdfKPqDoQ8?si=3mvpZ-wUPied3C3J

Tradeoffs

  • A Wyoming Doctor’s Fight to Keep Abortion Legal in Her Deep Red State
  • Call to Mind: Immigration and the Challenge to Belong
  • As Drama at Trump's FDA Subsides, Doubts and Damage Linger
  • Making Medical Decisions with Uncertain Science
  • With Millions Expected to Lose Coverage, States Look for New Ways to Prevent Medical Debt
https://youtu.be/ZtFJ1NnaJj8?si=X_zFEtGkxkTwMKc8

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