WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation's framework for economic security and health care in retirement is financially unsustainable, but you wouldn't know it from listening to the presidential candidates.
This week the Social Security and Medicare trustees warned of tough choices ahead to keep the two programs solvent over the long run. Together, Social Security and Medicare account for about 40 percent of federal spending, providing inflation-protected monthly checks and health insurance for tens of millions of seniors and disabled people. Working families benefit, too, when elders can live independently.
STATE HOUSE — With a final decision far off, the chief advocate for building a train tunnel beneath downtown Boston and the skeptical Baker administration agree on the next steps towards advancing that proposal.
"I don't think we're disagreeing on much of anything at this point," former Gov. Michael Dukakis told reporters after meeting with Transportation Secretary Stephanie Pollack in the State House on Wednesday.
