Proposal by the current White House administration and the Republican-infested U.S. Congress to overhaul the $530-billion Medicaid program will not only send millions of older Americans without access to immediate and direct help with their activities of daily living, it’s also expected to render millions of nursing home workers unemployed. Medicaid’s second largest expense is care for the elderly—who comprise only 9 percent of program enrollees but account for 21 percent of

Donald Trump’s presidency and the hateful rhetoric he brings with him certainly created waves of uneasiness among millions of immigrants — documented or not — in the United States. It flipped my personal “panic on” switch, particularly when immigration agents started rounding up mostly brown people for overstaying their welcome (or something like that) here. A naturalized American who came here (and still speaks) with a thick Filipino accent, it feels as if I have to always b