Alex Lawson

2025: Social Security benefits up 2.5 percent

Big news: The Social Security Administration just announced that the annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) for Social Security benefits will be 2.5%. That means that people receiving Social...

Let’s have a prescription drug public option

also, by Stephanie Taylor, originally published in The American Prospect. Kara Eastman, the Democratic nominee in Nebraska’s Second Congressional District, tells a story while campaigning about...

Senate bill would deliver lower drug prices

It is unacceptable that people in the U.S. are going without needed medicines because they can’t afford them. On March 28, Senator Al Franken, along with Sheldon Whitehouse, Sherrod Brown, Amy...