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	<title>Medicare &#8211; Middle Wisconsin</title>
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		<title>Budget Chaos in Wisconsin</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Anderson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2025 04:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Wisconsin Senator Chris Larson is concerned about the impact on Wisconsin&#8217;s state budget from Trump&#8217;s cuts to federal funding. The cuts being implemented at the federal level will create havoc with the Wisconsin state budget. Senator Larson has introduced emergency legislation – the Frozen Federal Funds Emergency Act – to help deal with this problem. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>INDIVISIBLE Hands Off Rally April 5</title>
		<link>https://middlewisconsin.org/indivisible-hands-off-rally-april-5/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Tabaka-Stencil]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2025 04:45:40 +0000</pubDate>
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	&#160; Northcentral Wisconsin INDIVISIBLE Fights back! Saturday, April 5 at noon Rib Mountain Drive (sidewalk between Michael’s Crafts and Hobby Lobby) Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them. We are fighting back! They&#8217;re taking everything they can get their hands on—our health care, our data, our jobs, our services—and daring the world [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>WHO IS REPRESENTING YOU</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Wiensch]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Feb 2025 05:45:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Are you a senior citizen on Medicare? Will you be? Did you know Rep. Tom Tiffany is working to make it harder for you to afford medicine?  Since 2022, federal law has allowed Medicare, working on your behalf, to negotiate prescription prices with drug companies. This resulted in lower prices for medicines like insulin. The law also caps [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Social Security and Scary Looking Postcards</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Billy Feitlinger]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 2024 04:45:33 +0000</pubDate>
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	Wisconsin’s GOP recently flooded our mailboxes with scary-looking postcards claiming that Kamala Harris’ “amnesty plan for illegals” will destroy Social Security and Medicare. First off, providing “amnesty” would mean pardons for illegally crossing the border and granting legal status, and VP Harris has no such plan. &#160; Secondly, while both programs may be unable to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Saving Social Security</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Tabaka-Stencil]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2024 04:45:21 +0000</pubDate>
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	Recently Wausau took part in a launch of Seniors for Biden in Wisconsin. We had former Alabama Senator Doug Jones come to Wausau to do a tour on Social Security and Medicare. Throughout the week, former U.S. Senator Doug Jones launched the “Protect Our Retirement” tour to campaign for President Biden across Wisconsin, with stops in Wausau, Green [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Heal Medicare</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joyce Luedke]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 04:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Social Security is on the Ballot</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Anderson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2024 04:45:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Social Security works for all Americans. Social Security is essential to most people&#8217;s present and future financial security. It is much more than retirement income for old folks. Social Security is very efficient with overhead costs which are way below those of private insurance companies. It is also very popular and the most successful public program in our [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Wisconsin Alliance for Retired Americans</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2024 04:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>JUST MONEY ONE</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dave Svetlik]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2023 04:45:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We are once again watching the complete ignorance – and yes, it is ignorance – of our legislators arguing over the national “debt Ceiling.” Forgive the harsh words, but this misguided foolishness hurts people. It hurts the nation.  Every time we witness this self-destructive nonsense, one cannot help but wonder &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; Why don’t [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Corporate Crime</title>
		<link>https://middlewisconsin.org/corporate-crime/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Anderson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2023 05:45:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“The irony is that the nation I live in, once a beacon of democracy for my parents, is now dominated by corporations that value profit over people, safety and well-being,” Marta Tellado, CEO of Consumer Reports. Her parents fled Cuba in 1961. Crime was a major issue in the recent election. According to the Republicans [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Hands Off Our Earned Benefits</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Tabaka-Stencil]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2022 04:45:55 +0000</pubDate>
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	&#160; Social Security is an incredibly effective and popular program. It provides benefits to over 1.2 million Wisconsinites and keeps over 400,000 out of poverty. There is no reason Social Security should be a partisan issue. It benefits Republicans, Democrats, and independents. But Senator Ron Johnson wants to put these vital earned benefits at risk [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Retirement Issues and WI Candidates: U.S. Senate and WI Treasurer</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[POWRS]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2022 04:45:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[For Immediate Release: June 13, 2022 POWRS Steering Committee, Philip Anderson, powerswi@gmail.com Retirement Issues and WI Candidates: U.S. Senate and WI Treasurer To better inform Wisconsin voters, Protect Our Wisconsin Retirement Security (POWRS) surveyed the U.S. Senate candidates on retirement, Social Security and Medicare issues. We sent the survey to all the declared Democratic candidates [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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