The number of consumers age 60 and older with student loan debt has quadrupled over the last decade in the United States, and the average amount they owe has also dramatically increased. This trend is not only the result of borrowers carrying
On Thursday, January 12, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) will join CNN’s Jake Tapper for a town hall live from George Washington University at 6:00 p.m. PT. Speaker Ryan will take questions from the audience on the 2017 agenda and working with
Five years ago, a PAC called “The Agenda Project” released a TV ad, warning that GOP House Speaker Paul Ryan had a plan to wipe out the current Medicare system, voucherize it with a plan where seniors would be given a flat dollar voucher amount and thrown to
Today, the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released a joint report detailing how federal investigators linked the Russian government to hacks of Democratic Party organizations. The documentation clearly references the hacks of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Clinton’s campaign chairman
From 2007-2012, the Big Three wholesalers earned a combined $17 billion while they collectively shipped 423 million pain pills to West Virginia by Lauren McCauley, staff writer at Common Dreams Drug-pushing, multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical companies should be “investigated and prosecuted,” declared Sen. Bernie Sanders
Elections have consequences and President-Reject donald trump has nominated ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson to be our next U.S. Secretary of State. Picking the CEO of one of the largest and most environmentally destructive fossil fuel corporations in the world to serve as America’s
— by Stacy Canam. Office for Older Americans, CFPB Last week the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) took action against three reverse mortgage companies for deceptive advertisements, including claiming that consumers could not lose their homes. The CFPB is ordering American Advisors
Sunday, December 11, 2016 Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators John McCain (R-AZ), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Armed Services, Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Member of the Senate Committee on Armed Services, Charles E. Schumer (D-NY), Senate Democratic Leader-elect, and Jack Reed (D-RI),
Elections have consequences and this election has some real dooseys. Now that president-elect donald trump has embarked on a victory tour to feed his needy ego, there are a few things Nevadan’s should know about how his policies will affect people across
