Vikki Velasquez is a researcher and writer who has managed, coordinated, and directed various community and nonprofit organizations. She has conducted in-depth research on social and economic issues ...

Imagine being discharged from the emergency room after a severe asthma flare-up, only to return to a home located near factories or congested roadways that heavily pollute the air. Or having your ...

Here in the DOGE era, the specter of inefficient bureaucracy haunts many government agencies. Yet the Social Security Administration (SSA) offers a surprising counter-narrative—at least in parts. As ...

Social Security has a perfect record of giving millions of Americans their monthly benefit checks since the agency was founded in the 1930s. But due to recent actions by Elon Musk's DOGE, the 72.5 ...

There are millions of Americans today who rely heavily on Social Security to make ends meet. And it’s not just seniors who ...

Within two decades, China’s retirement-age population is projected to surpass the entire population of the United States. By 2040, an estimated 402 million people, or 28 percent of China’s population, ...

Former Maryland Gov. and Social Security chief Martin O’Malley is warning that Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s attacks on the agency could result in a “system collapse and an interruption of benefits” ...

Social Security has a perfect record of giving millions of Americans their monthly benefit checks since the agency was founded in the 1930s. But due to recent actions by Elon Musk's DOGE, the 72.5 ...

Martin O’Malley, former Social Security commissioner under the Biden administration, sounded the alarm over the Department of Government Efficiency’s cost-cutting measures at the agency, warning that ...