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Suzanne Potter California News Service SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Health advocates warn the Senate GOP bill to repeal and replace Obamacare would cause millions of Californians to lose their healthcare – by phasing out the Medicaid expansion and then capping the program altogether. The Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA) lifts...
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Suzanne Potter California News Service SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Defenders of California’s national monuments are part of a larger group of public lands advocates converging on Washington, D.C. this week to fend off policymakers who would shrink the monuments. In late April, President Donald Trump issued an executive order to...
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Suzanne Potter California News Service SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Representantes de la AARP de California y de todo el país se reúnen esta semana con miembros del Congreso para expresar su oposición a la mas reciente iniciativa del GOP sobre atención a la salud. El miércoles estaban en Washington D.C....
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Suzanne Potter California News Service SACRAMENTO, Calif. – On Wednesday dozens of senior advocates from AARP, including a sizable delegation from California, fanned out across Washington to talk to their representatives about opposing the GOP health care bill. The House version of the American Health Care Act includes a...
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Suzanne Potter California News Service SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Advocates for immigrants promoted the idea of making California a “sanctuary state,” with a big rally which occurred on the morning of Monday May 15th, on the steps of the Capitol building in Sacramento. Monday was the 21st annual California Immigrant...
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Suzanne Potter California News Service BERKELEY, Calif. – A new report finds that some California families are losing their homes and being driven into bankruptcy by the fees counties charge when kids get arrested – fees that nonetheless generate little to no profit for taxpayers. Researchers from the UC...
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Suzanne Potter California News Service SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Advocates for California immigrants are speaking out, educating people on their options in light of the Trump administration’s increased enforcement actions. On the campaign trail, Trump had threatened to revoke Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), the program that allowed temporary...
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Suzanne Potter California News Service SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Quienes apoyan un plan de ahorros para el retiro subvencionado por el estado presionan al Senado de los EEUU para que rechace una iniciativa que busca acabar con dichos programas en todo el pais. Son los defensores de familias tabajadoras que...
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Logan Pollard California News Service LOS ANGELES – Tax season is well underway; the deadline is April 18. Tax time can mean loads of stress, especially because the U.S. Tax Code has become increasingly complicated. But Nancy McPherson, state director for AARP California, says the AARP Foundation’s Tax-Aide program...