How Seniors Survived Katrina—Family, Faith and Community
News Orleans Agenda/New America Media, News Report, Posted: Aug 29, 2011
Six years after Hurricane Katrina robbed seniors of their homes and their way of life, family, faith and community have offset government failures to help them go on.
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Tags: hurricanekatrina, roadhomeprogram, seniors, seventhward
California Clinic Puts Smile on Community Care
New America Media, Video, Posted: Aug 29, 2011
East Palo Alto has a model health and dental clinic that puts a smile on one of the roughest and poorest communities in California.
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Tags: californiahealth, communityhealth, dentistry, eastpaloalto, healthcarereform, poverty, siliconvalley
Lone Resident of Bygone Shrimper Village Faces Eviction
California Watch, Video, Posted: Aug 25, 2011
California’s budget cuts will close 70 state parks, including China Camp, where Frank Quan, 85, has lived his entire life—and may have to move.
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Tags: californiabudgetcuts, californiahistory, chinacamp, chineseamericans, seniors, stateparks
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.
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Tags: californians, care, cost, elder, elder care, high cost, latino, report, unprepared
"Code Talkers Day" Salutes a Proud Legacy
Navajo Times, News Report, Posted: Aug 17, 2011
On Wednesday, President Ben Shelly issued a proclamation naming Aug. 14-19 as Navajo Nation Code Talkers Week.
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Tags: code talkers, honor, nation, navajo
S&P’s U.S. Downgrade: What’s Age Got to Do With It?
New America Media, News Analysis, Posted: Aug 12, 2011
In the shadows of S&P’s downgrade of the U.S. credit rating is its 2010 global aging report, calling for nations to cut their health and pension budgets—or else!
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Tags: credit rating, elderly, entitlements, global aging, Medicare, S&P, Social Security, Standard and Poor's
Wells Fargo Sued in Reverse Mortgage Dispute
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Aug 10, 2011
AARP and two law firms filed a class action suit against Wells Fargo and Fannie Mae on behalf of reverse mortgage heirs for illegally foreclosing on their homes.
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Tags: AARP, Fannie Mae, foreclosures, housing, market value, reverse mortgages, Wells Fargo
Medicare and Medicaid Are Not Safe From the Debt Deal Cuts
Colorlines, News Report, Posted: Aug 08, 2011
the first round of budget cuts was just a preview of what lies ahead.
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Study Shows Growing Number of Ethnic Elders in Financial Crisis
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Aug 06, 2011
As Washington considers cutting Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, a new report shows the ethnic elders are sinking ever more deeply into poverty.
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Tags: asian, black, color, disproportion, elder, ethnic, health, latino, poverty, social security, wealth