If there is a major reason I am voting this election cycle it is this: the Affordable Care Act. My mother-in-law relies on my husband and I as her primary caregivers. And thanks to health care reform, our family is saving thousands of dollars a year in prescription drug costs for her. For working families [...]
The reason I say “working” families is because this economy is much more complicated than “working” and “unemployed.” There are many families like ours, struggling, even though we both technically have jobs. We are both in our 50s, have no retirement savings and are living paycheck to paycheck. A year ago, my husband who was [...]
The loss of my husband’s job could not have come at a worst time for us. I work part-time at a supermarket, and the way the economy is my hours were further cut. The unemployment checks we received helped a great deal, and we were able to survive. But our nightmare began after the year [...]
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