'Silent Crime' -- Defrauding Elders Grows in Ethnic Communities
New America Media, News Report, Posted: May 18, 2012
The insidious crime of financial elder abuse is growing, and ethnic elders are especially vulnerable to family, friends and even organized crime.
Categories: Elders, Multi-ethnic, Original NAM Content, Top Stories
Tags: affinitycrime, edwinparada, elderabuse, elderfinancialabuse, ethnicelders, instituteonaging
Social Security’s Imminent Demise Greatly Exaggerated in Mainstream Headlines
New America Media, News Analysis, Posted: Apr 25, 2012
Mainstream media again sounded a false alarm, stating Social Security will soon “run dry.” Maybe that’s good for driving web traffic, but let’s consider some facts.
Categories: Economy, Elders, Media, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Top Stories
Tags: federaldeficit, medicare, socialsecurity, socialsecuritytrusteesreport, socialsecuritytrustfund
Blood and Sovereignty--Native Americans Give Voice to Studies on Them
New America Media, News Feature, Posted: Apr 18, 2012
Native Americans weren’t merely outraged by genetic researchers’ misuse of their blood, but they’re taking positive steps to control needed studies.
Categories: Elders, Health, Indigenous, Law & Justice, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Top Stories
Tags: americanindianstereotypes, arizonastateuniversity, geneticstudies, havasupaitribe, healthdisparities, helicopterresearchonindians, humangenomeresearch, indianhealthservice, NativeAmericanLawCenter, nativeamericanresearch, rcmar, squaxinislandtribe, tribalsovereignty, whitehousechampionsofchange
The New York Times “Safety Net” Package Gets It Half Right
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Feb 15, 2012
An important New York Times report says even critics of public spending increasingly need the safety net. But the story also perpetuates myths about Medicare.
Categories: Economy, Health, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Top Stories
Tags: medicare, middleclass, nytsatefynet, safetynet, socialsecurity
Ethnic Experts Say Strengthen, Don't Cut, Social Security
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Feb 06, 2012
Experts on an aging say a new report on ethnic elders and Social Security shows Washington needs to improve the program’s fairness, not cut it.
Categories: African American, Asian, Economy, Elders, Gender & Sexuality, Health, Indigenous, Intersections, Middle Eastern, Multi-ethnic, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Top Stories
Tags: ethnicelders, poverty, recession, safetynet, seniors, socialsecurity
Reports Show Social Security Cuts Would Hit People of Color
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Oct 19, 2011
Two new reports say minorities and women, both hard hit by the recession, would struggle more in retirement, if Congress cuts Social Security.
Categories: African American, Economy, Elders, Gender & Sexuality, Intersections, Latino, Multi-ethnic, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Top Stories
Tags: africanamericans, congress, entitlementreform, greatrecession, latinos, nationaldebt, obama, poverty, retirement, rockefellerfoundation, socialsecurity, supercommittee, women
From Jim Crow to Juan Crow: Alabama's Civil Rights Legacy
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Oct 12, 2011
New America Media’s Paul Kleyman, who was on the 1965 Selma march, reflects on Alabama’s anti-immigrant law -- and the use of water as a racial divide.
Categories: African American, Alabama News Network, Featured Columnists, Immigration, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Top Stories
Tags: 60s, alabama, baby boomers, blacks, civil rights, hispanics, immigrants, racism, segregation, selma, water
Obama Medicare-Medicaid Cuts Would Pinch Rich, But Harm Other Americans
New America Media, News Analysis, Posted: Sep 21, 2011
Medicare and Medicaid cuts in the President’s budget plan aims to spread the “pain” fairly, but does pinching the rich equal less accessible care for the rest of us?
Categories: Elders, Health, Intersections, Multi-ethnic, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Top Stories
Tags: budgetdeficit, healthcare, medicaid, medicare, nationaldebt, obamacare
Give "The Help" -- and Black Working Women -- a Break
New America Media, First Person, Posted: Aug 19, 2011
Criticism of “The Help” for stereotyping ignores its rare focus on black women caught between racial brutality and their hopes for the civil rights movement.
Categories: African American, Arts & Entertainment, European, Multi-ethnic, Original NAM Content, Top Stories
Tags: civil rights, counterpoint, fried chicken, medgar evers, positive review, review, the help
Two-Thirds of Californians Unprepared for Costs of Elder Care
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Aug 18, 2011
Two-thirds of Californians in a new poll worry they can’t afford the huge cost of long-term care—but the state is still cutting vital programs.
Categories: Elders, Health, Latino, Original NAM Content, Top Stories
Tags: californians, care, cost, elder, elder care, high cost, latino, report, unprepared