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Editorial: Seniors beware: Biden policies threaten entitlements

Older Americans tend to vote, and they also tend to be wary of politicians who propose entitlement reform. That combination typically leads to inertia among elected officials whose objective is self-preservation.

Tribune News Service

Why robodebt's use of 'income averaging' lacked basic common sense

The practice of “income averaging” to calculate debts in the robodebt scheme was completely flawed. This is what I confirmed in my new report conducted for the robodebt royal commission published last Friday, the final day of the commission’s public hearings.

The Conversation

DeSantis scores 1st congressional endorsement over Trump, from Texas Rep. Chip Roy

WASHINGTON – Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis scored his first congressional endorsement for president, as Texas Rep. Chip Roy, a leader in the far-right Freedom Caucus, urged conservatives Wednesday to look past Donald Trump in 2024.

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In nursing homes, impoverished live final days on pennies

A half-century-old bit of American bureaucracy is leaving hundreds of thousands of nursing home residents in an unthinkable bind: Living on as little as $30 a month

The Independent UK

Joe Battenfeld: Bank failures fueling insecurity and angst among American voters

The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and two other large banks is fueling economic insecurity and angst among an already rattled American public and is prompting a major damage control effort by President Joe Biden.

Boston Herald

Trump views DeSantis as strongest GOP challenger in 2024

Former President Donald Trump said he considers Ron DeSantis as his strongest potential challenger for the Republican nomination and attacked the Florida governor during his first 2024 campaign stop in Iowa.

Tribune News Service

Haley wants entitlement program changes for younger people

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley is proposing changes to entitlement programs for younger generations, opening the door to potential cuts to Social Security and Medicare if elected

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Trump sidesteps looming criminal probes as he goes after DeSantis in Iowa speech

The former president makes his case in Iowa as the 2024 campaign kicks off in earnest

The Independent UK

Humza Yousaf vows to shift independence campaign into 'fifth gear'

Social security minister Ben Macpherson had said it would take longer than the short or medium term for Scotland to become a successful independent country.

Daily Record

New details for people on Carer’s Allowance moving to devolved payment next year

A full rollout of the new devolved benefit is expected to begin across Scotland in Spring 2024.

Daily Record

Doyle McManus: Biden's budget was an opening bid. Where's the Republican plan?

President Joe Biden unveiled his $6.8 trillion budget proposal last week, and it drew the customary jaded responses: a work of fiction. A party platform with price tags. And, of course, dead on arrival.

Los Angeles Times

Republican John Kennedy takes aim at Biden over social security funding

Senator accuses president of ‘demagoguing’ issue to fund and protect program, along with Medicare, from Republican proposals

The Guardian - US

‘Scotland not able to be successful independent state in short to medium term’

Ben Macpherson, an SNP MSP and Scottish Government minister, issued the warning to party members as they prepare to vote for a new leader.

The Independent UK

House GOP's spending plans could threaten key Senate races

Several House Republicans are likely to run for Senate.

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Ads praise, bash Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as he visits battleground states

Gov. Ron DeSantis took his book tour to Iowa on Friday, the first GOP caucus state in the 2024 primaries, as his would-be presidential campaign heated up with new ads both for and against him seeking the White House.

Daily Record

DWP shares financial support available to single parents during cost of living crisis

Parents on certain benefits may also be able to claim a new £100 monthly devolved child payment.

Glasgow Live

People in Scotland with one of these 21 health conditions could be due up to £627 each month

Around 329,334 people in Scotland were claiming PIP in October of last year with over two million in England also claiming for it. Meanwhile in Wales, over 200,000 people also claimed the benefit with a total of 3,166,864 claimants in the UK.

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Freedom Caucus lays out debt limit, spending demands - Roll Call

House Freedom Caucus members want to cap nondefense discretionary spending at fiscal 2022 levels for the next decade.

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The Independent UK

Biden budget vs. House GOP: Values on display in debt fight

President Joe Biden's federal budget is a statement of his values

The New Daily

Michael Pascoe: Coalition had more bullets for the ‘undeserving’ poor

Ms Wilson has made a supplementary statement that is as damning of the Coalition and its facilitators as anything the commission has heard.

Los Angeles Times

A look at what is in Biden’s budget plan

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden unveiled a $6.8 trillion budget blueprint on Thursday that included new spending on child care, education and health care, and $5 trillion in proposed tax increases on wealthy Americans and corporations over the next decade.

The Independent UK

Biden to propose tax hike on billionaires’ investment income in 2024 budget

Mr Biden’s budget proposal will reportedly cut $3 trillion from the US budget deficit

Tribune News Service

Debt ceiling catapults new Biden budget into market spotlight

President Joe Biden’s budget proposal is an opening salvo in the looming impasse with Republicans over raising the debt ceiling and funding the U.S. government.

The Texas Tribune

At a Korean community center in Houston, the struggle immigrant Texans face with language barriers is clear

Texas largely conducts its state business in English and Spanish. It falls to interpreters like Terry Yun to help people scale the wall dividing them from crucial government services.

Los Angeles Times

Michael Hiltzik: Wall Street Journal tells us to weep for the plight of the very, very rich

Coverage of the richest Americans in publications aimed at their tax bracket tend to fall into two genres.

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