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MassEquality Nowhere Near Done

April 16, 2013 By massmarrier 2 Comments

No, we're not all set here in Massachusetts on LGBTQ issues, including marriage equality. A decade after Goodridge, MassEquality's Executive Director, Kara Suffredini, is still working a set of big bills. She came on over at Left Ahead … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: doma, lbgt, left-ahead, LGBTQ, marriage-equality, massachusetts, massequality, obama, public accommodations, same-sex-marriage, seniors, suffredini, youth

Ai-Jen Poo, National Domestic Worker Leader and Time 100 Honoree, Will Speak at the Boston Care Congress on June 16th

June 3, 2012 By jbrelsfo Leave a Comment

Ai-Jen Poo, a gifted community organizer recently honored by Time Magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world, will speak at the Greater Boston Care Congress on June 16th. The Congress will launch the Massachusetts … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: budget, communities, disab, disability, domestic, domestic workers, economy, elder-care, health-care, health-care-in-massachusetts, home-care, immigrant, immigration, labor, labor-unions, long-term-care, love, massachusetts, medical, medicare, national, personal care, politics, random, seniors, social-justice, social-security, taxes, unemployment, workers, workers-rights, working-families

3000+ New England Seniors Rally in Boston to Say STOP the Cuts

November 10, 2011 By massuniting Leave a Comment

The Wang Theater in downtown Boston was packed Wednesday, as seniors and community members came together to voice their strong opposition to proposed cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. The historic rally and march came as the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: ma-sen, ma-senate, medicaid, medicare, seniors, social-security, Super Committee

Harvard Pilgrim’s Medicare Bailout & Health Care “Competition”

September 30, 2010 By Benjamin Day 11 Comments

Medicare Advantage plans were created in 2003 under George W. Bush and a Republican majority in both houses of Congress to privatize Medicare: it allowed seniors to choose a private insurance company to manage their Medicare benefits … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: charlie-baker, harvard-pilgrim, health-care, health-insurance, health-reform, medicare, medicare-for-all, seniors, single-payer, single-payer-health-care

Senior Shock Ahead

September 30, 2008 By massmarrier Leave a Comment

Cross-posting: This appears at Marry in Massachusetts. As background, we need to know that this group has sloughed off its sociologists' original nickname, The Entitlement Generation. Somehow that got passed along to the young workers, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: bailout, boomers, economy, entitlements, korean-war, seniors

More on marriage equality — Medicaid protections

July 29, 2008 By metrowest-dem 3 Comments

I am not aware of any statistics about how many elders or persons with disabilities will be immediately affected; however, the Legislature has bound itself to pay for coverage.   Sometime after the legislation is signed into law, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: masshealth, medicaid, same-sex-marriage, seniors

0.5% for the Kids- We need to Make Overrides History

April 4, 2008 By bleicher 21 Comments

How about "0.5% for the Kids" so we can preserve our local communties.  If we increase the income tax 0.5% and hardwire the extra $1Billion for distribution on a per child per district basis so that all benefit, we can make it possible … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: chapter-70, education, governor-patrick, massachusetts, overrides, property-tax-relief, seniors, taxes

Hidden agenda surfaces in the Globe, part one

February 29, 2008 By Trickle up 42 Comments

The tax cutters! "Seniors are our first line of defense against overrides," said Barbara Anderson of Citizens for Limited Taxation. "Senior citizens are defeating these overrides, and they are trying to give them a reason not to vote." I've … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: cities, clt, drowninabathtub, property-tax, seniors, taxation, taxes, towns

New Obama TV spot in New Hampshire: “Need”

November 2, 2007 By cmdrfoley Leave a Comment

For more than two decades--as a community organizer, a civil rights attorney, a State Senator, and a United States Senator--Obama has been fighting to improve the lives of working Americans.  In September, he unveiled his Middle Class … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: barack-obama, middle-class-tax-fairness, new-hampshire, seniors, taxes, television

Hearing activity is picking up at the State House!

April 27, 2007 By AmberPaw Leave a Comment

There are a vast number of bills subject to hearing next week - way too many for me to post about.If you go to http://www.mass.gov/... you will see there are pages of bills scheduled.  Probably it is lobbyists who mostly pay attention … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: education, environment, health-care, seniors, taxes

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