The increase comes at a time when health insurance costs are climbing steeply for people with employer plans and Affordable Care Act coverage. The upward trend adds pressure on Americans already ...

Democratic Senators are pushing legislation that could hike monthly Social Security payments by $200, arguing senior citizens are struggling to keep up with sky-high costs. The recently introduced ...

A bill introduced by Senate Democrats would provide a six-month boost to Social Security benefits received by millions of Americans each month. The Social Security Emergency Inflation Relief Act calls ...

(NEXSTAR) – Last month, the Social Security Administration announced a 2.8% cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) for Social Security beneficiaries and Supplemental Security Income recipients. The increase ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Social Security cost-of-living increase will go up by 2.8% in 2026, which translates to an average increase of more than $56 for retirees every month, agency officials said ...

The increase for 2026 is larger than the 2.5% cost-of-living-adjustment that beneficiaries received for this year, but far smaller than the ones for the few years before that, when inflation was ...

When Democrats are at their best, they are performing one job: reducing inequality and making American life more just. That’s what Franklin Roosevelt did with the New Deal and Lyndon Johnson tried to ...

Infection rates from drug-resistant “nightmare bacteria” rose almost 70% between 2019 and 2023, according to a new report from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention scientists. Bacteria that are ...

The sun has become more and more active over the last 16 years, in a turn that surprised scientists and could affect space weather and technology on Earth, NASA announced this week. A new research, ...

Researchers found that the gains in average life expectancy during the last century are unlikely to continue. The reasons for that increase were a huge downturn in infant mortality along with medical ...

Hypokalemia and even low-normal plasma potassium levels increase the risk of ventricular arrhythmias among patients with cardiovascular disease. An assessment of a strategy of actively increasing ...