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WASHINGTON – President Bush's prescription drug plan will create serious health and financial consequences for nearly 7 million Americans who fall into the program's "doughnut hole," a massive gap in coverage for those whose annual drug costs are between $2,250 and $5,100, according to a new report released today by the research arm of the Campaign for America's Future. more »

WASHINGTON – Latino taxpayers are at a higher risk of missing the May 15 enrollment deadline for the new prescription drug law because of cultural, language and economic barriers, according to a new report released today by the Campaign for America’s Future. more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – With recent attention focused on lobbying reform in Congress, two public interest groups today called for an investigation into how former Rep. more »

WASHINGTON - With millions of Americans set to miss the May 15 cut-off date to sign up for Medicare's complicated new prescription drug program, dozens of organizations representing millions of members are calling on Congress to extend the enrollment deadline. Seniors who haven't signed up for the new prescription drug program have less than one month to enroll.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Specific provisions of the Medicare prescription drug program inserted at the request of pharmaceutical and HMO interests will cost taxpayers and seniors more than $80 billion a year, according to a report released today by the Institute for America's Future and the Center for Economic and Policy Research.

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ON INCOMES:
--Inflation-adjusted average CEO pay at depth of recession in 2002: $7,773,000
--Average CEO pay as of 2004: $9,600,000
[Executive Pay, Business Week 4/21/2003; A Payday For Performance, Business Week 4/18/2005]

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MONTGOMERYVILLE, Pa. – A typical 20-year-old Pennsylvanian will lose $152,000 during retirement if the president’s Social Security privatization plan is enacted, according to a report released today by the Institute for America’s Future. more »

Albany, N.Y. – A new report released today by the Institute for America’s Future shows that New York’s seniors and people with disabilities with very low incomes will be forced to pay much more for medication they desperately need because of the new Medicare prescription drug law passed by Congress and signed into law by President Bush. 

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Madison, Wis. – Several local seniors mad about President Bush’s new prescription drug law appeared in a series of print advertisements running in newspapers throughout Iowa this week. more »

Several local seniors angry about President Bush’s new prescription drug law appeared in a series of print advertisements running in newspapers throughout Iowa this week. more »