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As the debate in Washington rages over how to avoid the fiscal cliff before the Jan. 1 deadline, some lawmakers are using Social Security and Medicare as bargaining chips. Among the proposals under consideration by legislative leaders is an effort to reduce the Cost of Living Adjustment or COLA that is regularly made to Social Security benefits. Joy Bruck The proposal on the table would change the way the COLA is calculated by moving to a chained consumer price index, or chained CPI. The proposal is complex, but the result...
Every day more than 20,000 older Montanans face the risk of hunger. They're our friends, our neighbors and our family, and they don't want to be a burden, so they suffer in silence. That's why AARP Montana has teamed up with the National Association of Letter Carriers to fight hunger in local communities throughout the state. What can you do in a single day to help us fight hunger in Montana? On Saturday, there's an easy answer: Donate nonperishable food products to Stamp Out Hunger, the nation's largest one-day food drive....