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Medicare: Is 67 the new 65?
Looking for ways to slow the growth of entitlement programs, budget negotiators in Washington are considering making seniors wait two years longer to qualify for Medicare — from age 65 to 67. Many Republicans have endorsed the idea, noting that...
Tags: Health Insurance Cost, Laws, Poverty, Crime, Law and Justice, Career and Workplace
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GOP suggests Medicare, Social Security cuts for 'fiscal cliff' deal
WASHINGTON -- The Senate’s top Republican suggested specific cuts to popular safety-net entitlement programs – Medicare and Social Security – as the kind of proposals his party wants on the table in talks with the White House over the...
Tags: U.S. Senate, Parties and Movements, John Boehner, White House, Public Finance
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Letters: Fairness for fixed-income seniors
Re "Calculating the cost of living," Editorial, Dec. 19 The editorial about the proposal to change to a "chained-CPI" for calculating cost-of-living increases for Social Security entirely misses the problem with using this type of calculation. It...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Prescription Drugs, Market and Exchange, Drugs and Medicines
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Businesses hitting the brakes ahead of the 'fiscal cliff'
The government's economic reports should come with the same disclaimer that Wall Street prospectuses do: Past performance doesn't necessarily predict future results. Nevertheless, there's cause for pessimism about 2013 in Thursday's Commerce Department...
Tags: Fiscal Cliff, John Boehner, Barack Obama, Business, Productivity
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Letters: Using Medicare but backing the GOP
Re "Politics of age skew spending debates," News Analysis, Jan. 3 Surprise! Mitt Romney probably drew much support from his infamous 47%. As the Times reported, 56% of the over-65 demographic voted for Romney. Why would a group dependent on Social...Tags: Voting, Parties and Movements, Elections, Mitt Romney, Republican Party
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Top Democrat urges progressives to deal on 'fiscal cliff'
This post has been updated and corrected, as indicated below.WASHINGTON – A top Democrat pressured fellow progressives Tuesday to support – rather than fight – a far-reaching budget deal that includes cuts to entitlement programs after resolving the upcoming fiscal cliff. “We can't be...Tags: U.S. Senate, White House, Public Finance, Culture, Republican Party
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Officials probe how secret confetti rained on Macy's parade
When Thanksgiving Day parade-goers in Manhattan looked into the confetti-filled sky last week, they may have seen more than they bargained for. Nassau County police announced that they are investigating how some of their confidential records including...
Tags: Thanksgiving, Mitt Romney, Personal Data Collection, Interior Policy, Holidays
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Fitch warns that debt-limit delay could hurt U.S. credit rating
WASHINGTON — A failure by Congress to raise the debt limit "in a timely manner" could lead to a downgrade of the nation's AAA credit rating, Fitch Ratings said Tuesday. Republicans want major government spending cuts in exchange for a debt-limit...
Tags: Minor League Baseball, Ben Bernanke, Moody's Corporation, Public Finance, Automotive Equipment
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Protesters pressure Villaraigosa to step down from Fix the Debt group
L.A. NOWProtesters came to City Hall to present Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa with a petition demanding he step down from the Fix the Debt campaign, a day after the mayor distanced himself from the group's push for large scale cuts to Social Security and... -
Avoiding the 'fiscal cliff' but falling anyway
It would be bad enough if the purveyors of economic and fiscal misdirection had done no more than describe a certain event looming at the end of this year as the "fiscal cliff." The imagery evokes an elemental crisis that can be avoided only by the...
Tags: White House, Public Finance, Budgets and Budgeting, Productivity, CNBC (tv network)
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Villaraigosa urges 'fiscal cliff' solution, defends Fix the Debt
L.A. NOWL.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa called for a bipartisan deal to avoid the automatic budget cuts and tax hikes that threaten to push the U.S. economy off a so-called "fiscal cliff." During an appearance on CNN Thursday morning, the mayor also defended... -
Villaraigosa defends association with Fix the Debt campaign
L.A. NOWLos Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa defended his decision to join the Fix the Debt campaign, a national bipartisan lobbying group, even as an online petition calling for him to quit the group surpassed 8,000 signatures. On Tuesday, Villaraigosa...
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