by Zachary Kessel | Feb 10, 2022 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON – For Senate Special Committee on Aging Chairman Bob Casey (D-Pa.) and ranking member Tim Scott (R-S.C.), Thursday’s hearing on dual-enrollment in Medicare and Medicaid was an opportunity to tout an accomplishment all too rare in today’s political climate:...
by Ellisya Lindsey | Jan 20, 2022 | Featured, Living
WASHINGTON — A semi-annual U.S. Census Bureau report on child support payments for the year 2017 fails to take into account the circumstances of parents with different levels of income, a practitioner said this week. “We want to help people to have an appreciation...
by Jenny Huh | Jan 13, 2022 | Featured, Immigration, Living
WASHINGTON – Lower financial literacy among Americans, especially those 65-and-older and those with disabilities, creates challenges for long-term money management, experts and nonprofit leaders told lawmakers on Thursday. “Seniors end up as greeters at Walmart when...
by Leslie Bonilla | Feb 15, 2019 | Business, Politics
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration’s controversial nominee to lead the Federal Housing Finance Agency told senators Thursday that he wanted to reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, two mortgage finance companies meant to make the housing market more stable and...
by Ellen Garrison | Mar 10, 2014 | Education
WASHINGTON – Treasury Secretary Jack Lew on Monday asked schools to teach young Americans about financial literacy, saying too many Millennials don’t know how to make good financial decisions. At a public meeting of the President’s Advisory Council on Financial...
