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New York, Chelsea apartments seen from the High Line park. pidjoe | iStock | Getty Images Months after the national ban on evictions expired, a number of states and cities have either kept in place or implemented their own policies to try to keep families in their homes. Despite heavy opposition by landlords, advocates say
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Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) (C) and Rep. Tom Reed (R-NY) (3rd R), co-chairs of the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus, hold a news conference with fellow members of Congress to highlight the need for bipartisan, bicameral COVID-19 relief legislation outside the U.S. Capitol on December 03, 2020 in Washington, DC. Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images House
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Families, parents and caregivers call on Congress to include paid family and medical leave in the Build Back Better legislative package during an all-day Nov. 2, 2021 vigil in Washington, D.C. Paul Morigi | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images Democrats and advocates for paid family leave were handed a victory in the fight for
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dusanpetkovic | iStock | Getty Images Improvements to Medicare’s coverage could be on the horizon for the health insurance program’s 63.3 million beneficiaries. Under the latest version of congressional Democrats’ $1.75 trillion spending bill, the federal government would be permitted to negotiate the price of certain drugs with pharmaceutical companies, a move expected to result
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Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., attends an an all-day vigil for a national paid leave policy on Nov. 2, 2021 in Washington, D.C. Paul Morigi | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images A proposal for a national paid family leave program has been dropped from proposed Build Back Better legislation. But the fight for a policy
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Open enrollment season is underway. With millions of employees reevaluating their job or considering a change, employer-sponsored benefits are an even greater consideration heading into 2022. About 157 million Americans rely on employer-sponsored health insurance coverage and yet, before the Covid-19 pandemic, many people spent very little time reviewing their workplace health-care plan during the
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