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WISER recently released the final report for our Appalachian Savings Project. This project created a matched savings program for self-employed childcare workers in rural Ohio and West Virginia. After a year of saving, project participants averaged $1,150 in savings, or 5.5% of their income. Click here to read entire article.
Read moreWASHINGTON — Some 400,000 retirees who worked in the trucking, parcel delivery and grocery supply industries face drastic pension cuts on July 1 as a result of a little-noticed measure attached to a huge end-of-year spending bill passed in December 2014. Click here to read enitre article.
Read moreCongress finally just passed bipartisan legislation renewing the Older Americans Act for three years, sending it to President Obama for his certain signature. Passage comes almost 10 years since the Act was last reauthorized, a delay which has been a source of great consternation to older adults and their advocates. Click here to read entire
Read moreThe program is designed to raise public awareness about the dangers of sharing medications without medical supervision in communities across the nation. The program also works with the medical community and the pharmaceutical industry to highlight the risks of overprescribing to young adults. Click here to read entire article.
Read moreThe Targeted Capacity Expansion: Medication-Assisted Treatment-Prescription Drug Opioid Addiction (MAT-PDOA) program aims to provide funding to states to enhance/expand their treatment service systems to increase capacity and provide accessible, effective, comprehensive, coordinated care, and evidence-based medication-assisted treatment and recovery support services. Click here to read entire article.
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