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How ACIP's new vaccine guidelines can put older adults at risk:
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How New Vaccine Guidelines May Put Older Adults At Risk
Warnings about the dangers of vaccines from senior government officials inevitably will lead to more unnecessary sickness and death, especially among older adults.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/howardgleckman/2025/09/29/how-new-vaccine-guidelines-may-put-older-adults-at-risk/
2 days ago
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A look back at four decades of US tax policy. It is not a pretty sight:
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What The Ugly History of Tax Policy Over The Past Four Decades Means For The Future
Tax policy and the way it is produced changed dramatically, and not, sadly, for the better.
https://taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/what-ugly-history-tax-policy-over-past-four-decades-means-future
5 days ago
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How a House spending bill would block efforts to enhance disclosure of corporate tax payments:
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Congress Moves To Allow Large Corporations To Continue To Hide Tax Payments
If enacted, the House Republicans’ appropriations measure would kill those rules, though its fate is uncertain.
https://taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/congress-moves-allow-large-corporations-continue-hide-tax-payments
12 days ago
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The health care system is failing family caregivers. My look at some new ideas on how it can help them:
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#seniors
#olderadults
@NA4Caregiving
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How The Health Care System Can Better Support Family Caregivers
Family caregivers help frail older adults and people with disabilities. But they get little support from the health care system. Two non-profits have solutions.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/howardgleckman/2025/09/18/how-the-health-care-system-can-better-support-family-caregivers/
13 days ago
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VP Vance wants to revoke the tax-exempt status of foundations that support grantees that he says use hate speech. When Trump made similar threats against Harvard, I looked at the tax law. This is what I found:
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Why Trump’s Efforts To Revoke Tax-Exemptions Are So Dangerous
President Trump’s multiple threats to revoke the tax-exempt status of organizations that disagree with him have deeply troubling implications for the credibility of the federal revenue system and for ...
https://taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/why-trumps-efforts-revoke-tax-exemptions-are-so-dangerous
13 days ago
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Two new studies help explain why so many Americans are baffled by long-term care. My take here:
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Long-Term Care Costs More Than Many Think And, No, Medicare Won’t Pay
Two recent studies help explain how Americans think about the financial aspects of their long-term care needs, and why they are so poorly prepared.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/howardgleckman/2025/08/19/long-term-care-costs-more-than-many-think-and-no-medicare-wont-pay/
about 1 month ago
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Trump's deal with Nvidia and AMD is an export tax, though they won't say so. Here's why:
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The Trouble With Trump’s Deal With Nvidia, and AMD: It’s An Export Tax
This arrangement may prove bad for the economy, for national security, and even for many of the president’s own priorities.
https://taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/trouble-trumps-deal-nvidia-and-amd-its-export-tax
about 2 months ago
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President Trump used the anniversary of Social Security to say he exempted all recipients from tax on their benefits and made the program stronger. Neither claim is true:
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Correcting the Social Security Administration About The Big Budget Bill
The misleading communication from SSA may add to the confusion many older adults already feel about the complex retirement insurance program.
https://taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/correcting-social-security-administration-about-big-budget-bill
about 2 months ago
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The big 2025 budget bill makes Social Security less stable. Here's how, and what it means:
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How The 2025 Budget Act Accelerates Social Security’s Insolvency
If the Social Security actuary is right, President Trump’s successor won’t have the option to ignore Social Security.
https://taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/how-2025-budget-act-accelerates-social-securitys-insolvency
about 2 months ago
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What can be done to reduce the epidemic of delirium among hospitalized older adults:
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Hospitals Must Better Identify And Manage Delirium In Seniors
As many as three in ten older patients may acquire delirium in the hospital. And the consequences can be severe, including longer hospital stays and even death.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/howardgleckman/2025/08/06/hospitals-must-better-identify-and-manage-delirium-in-seniors/
about 2 months ago
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How many households will benefit from the new tax deductions for tips, overtime, and seniors? Lots fewer than you probably thought:
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The Budget Law’s Tax Cuts For Overtime And Tips Are Popular, But Few Will Benefit
TPC estimates show that few will gain from new deductions for qualifying tip income and overtime pay, and the deduction for those over age 65 will only benefit half of those in that age group.
https://taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/budget-laws-tax-cuts-overtime-and-tips-are-popular-few-will-benefit
about 2 months ago
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While people are focusing on the big budget bill's Medicaid cuts, Trump is quietly making big changes to Medicare:
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What Older Adults Need To Know About Trump’s Changes To Medicare
Trump is changing Medicare, mostly focusing on providers. But the biggest impact may come from tariffs and deporting immigrants. Combined, these direct and indirect c
https://www.forbes.com/sites/howardgleckman/2025/07/30/what-older-adults-need-to-know-about-trumps-changes-to-medicare/
2 months ago
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A new study by AARP and the Nat. Alliance for Caregiving paints a picture of family caregivers struggling to support their loved ones. Here is a look at what it found:
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Who Are Family Caregivers Of Seniors And People With Disabilities?
Millions of Americans are struggling to care for relatives who increasingly need help with their daily activities, from bathing to shopping.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/howardgleckman/2025/07/24/who-are-family-caregivers-of-seniors-and-people-with-disabilities/
2 months ago
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The tax provisions of the big budget bill are regressive, complicated, expensive, and inequitable:
taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/what-...
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What Will The Tax Provisions Of The Big Budget Bill Really Do?
https://taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/what-will-tax-provisions-big-budget-bill-really-do
3 months ago
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The Social Security Administration misrepresented the effect of the new senior tax deduction. This is what really happens:
taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/corre...
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Correcting the Social Security Administration About The Big Budget Bill
The misleading communication from SSA may add to the confusion many older adults already feel about the complex retirement insurance program.
https://taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/correcting-social-security-administration-about-big-budget-bill
3 months ago
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The Senate worked really hard to make the TCJA's corporate tax cuts permanent, cutting Medicaid and even manipulating budget scoring. It probably was a waste of time. Permanent tax cuts rarely are:
taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/why-s...
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Why The Senate’s Efforts To Make Corporate Tax Cuts Permanent May Prove Futile
Historically, controversial tax changes rarely are permanent.
https://taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/why-senates-efforts-make-corporate-tax-cuts-permanent-may-prove-futile
3 months ago
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The just-passed tax and budget bill will have a profound impact on older adults and people with disabilities. Here's what they need to know:
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What Seniors Need To Know About Congress’s Big Budget Bill
The budget bill would slash safety net programs for older adults, people with disabilities, and their family caregivers. The bill also lowers taxes for some seniors.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/howardgleckman/2025/07/03/what-seniors-need-to-know-about-congresss-big-budget-bill/
3 months ago
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The tax provisions of the Senate's big budget bill are becoming even more regressive, TPC finds:
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The Pending Senate Budget Bill Is Even More Regressive Than The Finance Panel’s Version
The current Senate version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) would distribute most of those additional tax cuts to the highest-income households. The main reason is the way it treats the state...
https://taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/pending-senate-budget-bill-even-more-regressive-finance-panels-version
3 months ago
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Like the House version, the big Senate Finance Committee tax bill would focus most benefits on high-income households:
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TPC Finds The Senate’s Draft Tax Cut Still Mostly Favors High-Income Households
The tax provisions of the Senate Finance Committee’s draft budget bill would cut household taxes by an average of about $2,600 in 2026, slightly less than the House-passed bill, according to a new Tax...
https://taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/tpc-finds-senates-draft-tax-cut-still-mostly-favors-high-income-households
3 months ago
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The Senate budget bill would cut Medicaid even more deeply than the House version, impact older adults and people with disabilities:
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What The Senate Budget Bill Would Mean For Older Adults
The Senate’s draft budget bill would cut Medicaid for older adults more deeply than the House version. It would scrap a Biden-era minimum staffing rule for nursing homes.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/howardgleckman/2025/06/19/what-the-senate-budget-bill-would-mean-for-older-adults/
3 months ago
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It is time to repeal the '74 budget act. By turning the law on its head, Congress has used it to make deficits vastly worse:
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It Is Time To Repeal Congress’s Budget Rules And Start Over
It is time to repeal the half-century-old Budget and Impoundment Control Act, which structures the way Congress writes its fiscal plans, and create something new.
https://taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/it-time-repeal-congresss-budget-rules-and-start-over
3 months ago
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Trump and the GOP used to oppose government red tape. Now they want to use it to keep eligible people from receiving Medicaid, SNAP, ACA insurance, the EITC, and other government assistance.
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The GOP Falls In Love With Red Tape To Force People Off Federal Programs
President Trump and his allies on Capitol Hill are creating new bureaucratic hurdles to prevent families from tapping government benefits.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/howardgleckman/2025/06/09/the-gop-falls-in-love-with-red-tape-to-force-people-off-federal-programs/
4 months ago
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Claiming OBBBA costs nothing because it merely continues existing tax cuts while claiming that leaving policy unchanged will massively boost economic growth seems...not credible. A piece I wrote in March worrying about this:
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How Congress May Claim That Doing Nothing Can Grow The Economy
Lawmakers would be arguing that the tax bill is merely extending current tax policy and that this non-event would contribute to a big increase in the economy.
https://taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/how-congress-may-claim-doing-nothing-can-grow-economy
4 months ago
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Trump's 2026 budget would freeze funding for many programs for seniors, slash funding for others, and kill still others:
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What Trump’s 2026 Budget Would Mean For Older Adults
Trump would freeze spending for many services for older adults, deeply cut others, slash staffing for key programs, and abolish an office that manages many initiatives.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/howardgleckman/2025/06/04/what-trumps-2026-budget-would-mean-for-older-adults/
4 months ago
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The House's big budget bill would cut taxes by an average of about $2900 in 2026, the Tax Policy Center finds. But beware of averages. Most benefits go to high-income households:
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TPC Finds Final House Budget Bill Cuts Average Taxes By $2,900, Mostly For High-Income Households
The budget reconciliation bill passed by the House on May 22 would cut taxes by an average of about $2,900 in 2026, according to a new analysis by the Tax Policy Center that reflects eleventh hour cha...
https://taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/tpc-finds-final-house-budget-bill-cuts-average-taxes-2900-mostly-high-income-households
4 months ago
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Trump's pardons of 5 well-connected tax cheats will further erode public confidence in the tax system:
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Trump’s Pardons Of Tax Cheats Erode Confidence In The Tax System
Trump pardoned five well-connected people who committed tax fraud. His message: If you have political influence, cheating on your income tax is acceptable.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/howardgleckman/2025/05/30/trumps-pardons-of-tax-cheats-erode-confidence-in-the-tax-system/
4 months ago
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The House budget bill fails all 4 tax reform tests. Bill Gale and I explain how:
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The House Budget Bill Fails Key Tax Reform Tests
The House budget bill fails four tests of tax reform: efficiency, fairness, simplicity, and revenue neutrality.
https://taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/house-budget-bill-fails-key-tax-reform-tests
4 months ago
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TPC finds the House tax bill would benefit most households, but 60 percent of the cuts would go to the top 20 percent and 1/3 would go those making $460,00 or more:
taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/house...
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House Tax Cuts Would Benefit Most, But Tilt To Highest-Income Households
More than eight in ten households would get a tax cut in 2026 under the big budget bill now being considered by the House, according to a new TPC analysis.
https://taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/house-tax-cuts-would-benefit-most-tilt-highest-income-households
4 months ago
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I'll be giving the keynote address on Wed May 21 at the Montgomery County Commission on Aging's 2025 Public Policy Forum. The event will be from 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM at Bohrer Park, Gaithersburg, MD
5 months ago
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How the House Medicaid bill could harm older adults and their family caregivers:
www.forbes.com/sites/howard...
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What The House Medicaid Bill Means For Older Adults And Their Families
Low-income workers who leave their jobs or reduce their hours to care for loved ones risk losing their own Medicaid benefits.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/howardgleckman/2025/05/15/what-the-house-medicaid-bill-means-for-older-adults-and-their-families/
5 months ago
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The risks to seniors and their family caregivers from the House Medicaid bill. My take here:
www.forbes.com/sites/howard...
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What The House Medicaid Bill Means For Older Adults And Their Families
Low-income workers who leave their jobs or reduce their hours to care for loved ones risk losing their own Medicaid benefits.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/howardgleckman/2025/05/15/what-the-house-medicaid-bill-means-for-older-adults-and-their-families/
5 months ago
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Trump says he will lower US drug prices by tying them to foreign prices. He can't:
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Trump’s Drug Pricing Plan Won’t Lower US Costs
President Trump’s executive order aimed at lowering the prices of prescription drugs in the US is unlikely to reduce them very much at all.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/howardgleckman/2025/05/13/trumps-drug-pricing-plan-wont-lower-us-costs/
5 months ago
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TPC: Two-thirds of the May 9 Ways and Means Committee tax plan would go to households making $217,000 or more:
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House GOP Tax Plan Would Cut Taxes Across The Board, But Mostly Benefit High-Income Filers
TPC analyzed a preliminary, incomplete draft of the tax portion of what will become the year’s major budget bill. It found that, on average, all income groups would benefit from the tax proposals. How...
https://taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/house-gop-tax-plan-would-cut-taxes-across-board-mostly-benefit-high-income-filers
5 months ago
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GOP efforts to slim down Trump's costly campaign tax cuts will make tax filing more complicated:
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GOP Efforts To Downsize Trump’s Tax Ideas Will Make Filing More Complicated
Congressional Republicans are straining to balance multiple, often-conflicting goals in a big 2025 tax bill. They want to extend the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and enact some form of Trump’s ideas suc...
https://taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/gop-efforts-downsize-trumps-tax-ideas-will-make-filing-more-complicated
5 months ago
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Sponsors look for ways to reduce costs of the WISH Act public long-term care insurance program:
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Suozzi Looks To Trim Costs Of His Public Long-Term Care Insurance Plan
Among the ideas on the table: Simplifying the benefit structure and switching from a cash benefit to one that reimburses people for their out-of-pocket expenses.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/howardgleckman/2025/05/08/suozzi-looks-to-trim-costs-of-his-public-long-term-care-insurance-plan/
5 months ago
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Trump's threat to revoke the tax-exempt status of Harvard and others has dangerous implications for the tax code and for democracy:
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Why Trump’s Efforts To Revoke Tax-Exemptions Are So Dangerous
President Trump’s multiple threats to revoke the tax-exempt status of organizations that disagree with him have deeply troubling implications for the credibility of the federal revenue system and for ...
https://taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/why-trumps-efforts-revoke-tax-exemptions-are-so-dangerous
5 months ago
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Medicaid cuts would hurt older adults, people with disabilities, and their families. Here's how:
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What Does Medicaid Have To Do With Older Adults Anyway?
Medicaid spends more than half its budget on medical and long-term care for frail, low-income older adults and younger people with disabilities.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/howardgleckman/2025/04/22/what-does-medicaid-have-to-do-with-older-adults-anyway/
5 months ago
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Trump's latest tariff plan would cut in half the revenue from his plans through April 2:
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Trump’s Latest Tariffs Would Raise Half His Previous Version, TPC Finds
TPC finds Trump’s latest plan would raise about $1.7 trillion for the 10 years from 2026 through 2035, plus an additional $125 billion for the remainder of 2025.
https://taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/trumps-latest-tariffs-would-raise-half-his-previous-version-tpc-finds
6 months ago
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Had the opportunity to discuss Trump's impact on older adults on Steve Gurney's Positive Aging webcast. You can watch here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y12s...
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Aging Services in the Trump Era
YouTube video by Positive Aging Community
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y12snYcoQfY
6 months ago
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The White House says Trump's tariffs will raise $6-$7 trillion. They'll raise less than half that. Here's how. And why:
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Trump’s Tariffs Will Raise Much Less Than He Expects
Trump’s tariffs are likely to fall far short of Navarro’s prediction, leaving a gaping fiscal hole for Congress to fill as it tackles a major tax bill this year. TPC estimates Trump’s taxes on importe...
https://taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/trumps-tariffs-will-raise-much-less-he-expects
6 months ago
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Join me at Noon EDT tomorrow for a webcast on the Trump impact on services for older adults, hosted by Positive Aging. Register here:
www.retirementlivingsourcebook.com/events/aging...
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Aging Services in the Trump Era
Event posted by Positive Aging Community on Positive Aging SourceBook.
https://www.retirementlivingsourcebook.com/events/aging-services-in-the-trump-era
6 months ago
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I joined host Melissa Batchelor and former ACL head Alison Barkoff on the This is Getting Old podcast to discuss what abolishing ACL means for older adults and people with disabilities. Watch here:
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What’s Happening to Older American’s Support Systems?
YouTube video by MelissaBPhD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61USCvljeZw
6 months ago
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Another shoe drops: Trump slashes staff that oversees programs for seniors and people with disabilities living at home:
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A Second Trump Shock To Programs For Seniors And People With Disabilities
The Trump Administration has cut by more than 40 percent the staff that oversees critical programs for older adults and people with disabilities who live at home.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/howardgleckman/2025/04/02/a-second-trump-shock-to-programs-for-seniors-and-people-with-disabilities/
6 months ago
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Trump's dilemma: Raise tariffs to maximize revenue or to achieve geopolitical goals. He can't do both. From a piece I wrote in February:
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Trump Can Use Tariffs For Revenue Or A Geopolitical Weapon, Not Both
The question then is which does Trump want more: more tariff revenue or perceived international policy victories?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/howardgleckman/2025/02/05/trump-can-use-tariffs-for-revenue-or-a-geopolitical-weapon-not-both/
6 months ago
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Trump abolishes the office that oversees many programs for older adults and people with disabilities trying to live at home:
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Trump Abolishes The Office That Supports Many Seniors And People With Disabilities
The elimination of the Administration for Community Living (ACL) will be a major blow to older adults and people with disabilities.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/howardgleckman/2025/03/27/trump-abolishes-the-office-that---supports-many-seniors-and-people-with-disabilities/
6 months ago
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Is Trump killing the income tax? He might be, with no clear plan to replace it:
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We May Be Watching The Death Of The Federal Income Tax
The actions of President Trump combined with early policy initiatives in Congress threaten to kill the federal income tax. If these efforts continue unabated, the current revenue system could collapse...
https://taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/we-may-be-watching-death-federal-income-tax
6 months ago
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The Trump Administration may have big plans for Medicare Advantage. But what are they?
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What Will The Trump Administration Do With Medicare Advantage?
Whatever Trump does, the consequences will be significant for older adults and younger people with disabilities who rely on Medicare for their health care.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/howardgleckman/2025/03/18/what-will-the-trump-administration-do-with-medicare-advantage/
7 months ago
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Tax data may seem boring but are critical to understanding how the revenue system affects us all. A look at the price of Trump's attacks on those data:
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The Price Of Trump’s Threats To IRS Data
Based on what already has happened at other agencies, data experts tell me they worry that entire research programs at IRS and Treasury may be eliminated, specific studies may be stopped, or results s...
https://taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/price-trumps-threats-irs-data
7 months ago
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Musk and Trump Say They Can Cut $700 billion from Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security fraud. They can't:
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Musk Can’t Cut $700 Billion In Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid Fraud
The inevitable result: He’ll have to either slash benefits for program recipients or fall far short of his goals for cutting government spending.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/howardgleckman/2025/03/12/musk-cant-cut-700-billion-in-social-security-medicare--medicaid-fraud/
7 months ago
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President Trump has raised tariffs on Canada yet again. So, once again, here is an explanation of how import taxes really work: What is a tariff and who pays it?
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What Is A Tariff And Who Pays It?
What Is A Tariff And Who Pays It? Earlier this month, President Trump escalated his trade war with China by announcing 10 percent tariffs on...
https://taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/what-tariff-and-who-pays-it
7 months ago
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