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Biden speaks with Obama on flight home from Air Force commencement

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President Biden on Thursday spoke on the phone with former President Obama about this week's vote to raise the debt ceiling, among other topics, the White House said.

The conversation happened while Biden flew back to Washington, D.C., on Air Force One after delivering a commencement address at the Air Force Academy.

"Among other topics, they spoke about the votes in Congress this week," the White House said.

The president did not respond to reporters when ...

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Poll shows 80 percent of older voters concerned prescription drug reform will hurt drug innovation

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A poll commissioned by American Commitment, a conservative-leaning advocacy group, showed that 80 percent of older voters fear the prescription drug reforms included in President Biden’s landmark Inflation Reduction Act will negatively impact drug innovation while 14 percent of those voters think it will lower their drug costs.  

The survey found that 60 percent of respondents 55 or older view health insurance-related costs as the most concerning issue related to health care a...

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Boosting Medicare Advantage can improve health care quality and costs

healthcare, News, Opinion

Ongoing concerns about rising health care costs and the looming fiscal insolvency of the Medicare program put increasing pressure on policymakers to rein in health care spending and preserve Medicare for future generations. One policy change could help maintain the program and move the health care system, as well as the way we pay for medical services, in a more sustainable direction. And, unlike most health care reforms, this one is remarkably simple.

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Will millennials stay quiet in 2024?

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The start of campaign season will bring potentially heated and awkward political conversations between average Americans and their coworkers, family and acquaintances. While voters and pundits alike will use their anecdotal experience in these interactions to claim to know which way the country is headed, new polling data suggests that might not be the best evidence.

According to a recent poll from State Policy Network (where I am a fellow), three out of five voters keep their...

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Work requirements are a policy failure: Why are they still an option?

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Bringing people into the workforce and helping them stay there should be a national priority. So should be ensuring that everyone has their basic needs met. 

We’ve reached an inflection point in our economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. The unemployment rate currently stands at 3.4 percent — one of the lowest on record and far below the nearly 15 percent rate at the outset of the pandemic. But the labor force participation rate (the s...

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Work requirements are a policy failure: Why are they still an option?

News, Opinion

Bringing people into the workforce and helping them stay there should be a national priority. So should be ensuring that everyone has their basic needs met. 

We’ve reached an inflection point in our economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. The unemployment rate currently stands at 3.4 percent — one of the lowest on record and far below the nearly 15 percent rate at the outset of the pandemic. But the labor force participation rate (the s...

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