Blog

• Strengthening Gulf Coast Retirees

  August 29, 2024: Gulf Coast retirees have several opportunities to create a strong movement around Houston. Retiree table at the AFL-CIO Labor Day Picnic on Saturday On-Line Meeting Saturday afternoon "All Hands" special meeting and news conference at 10Am...Read more >

• Let’s Talk, then “Do Something” in Texas

  August 24, 2024:   Kenneth Williams is flying home from the Chicago convention today, Saturday, August 24. Tomorrow, Sunday at 2PM, he will lead an on-line discussion about what the Democratic Part...Read more >

• Celebrating and Working Even Harder

  August 14, 2024: Across Texas, retirees are celebrating today for it is the anniversary of the best government program ever invented: Social Security. Our chapters in every metropolitan area are holding parties and other events. Everybody can join the Austin Social S...Read more >

• Celebrate What We Have, and Struggle for More

  August 08, 2024: Texas retirees celebrated the anniversaries of Medicare/Medicaid and Social Security, July 30 and August 14 respectively. The Austin Chapter made arrangements to bring a table to different organizations and events. Most chapters combined the two anni...Read more >

• Win for Texas Seniors

  July 23, 2024: Dallas TARA Chapter is holding a fund raising luncheon at 12:15PM on August 7th at the Charco Broil, 413 W Jefferson Blvd. We'll be honoring Judy Bryant, our organizer who just got out of hospital, and Social Security's birthday. Congressman Marc Vea...Read more >

• KFF Health News: Lack of Affordability Tops Older Americans’ List of Health Care Worries

  July 11, 2024: What weighs most heavily on older adults’ minds when it comes to health care? The cost of services and therapies, and their ability to pay. “It’s on our minds a whole lot because of our age and because everything keeps getting more expens...Read more >

• Meet Our New Treasurer

  June 11, 2024: Mary Ann Climer has agreed to serve as Treasurer for the Texas Alliance. She has spent years developing her skills in accounting and other aspects of running an organization. Climer is a member of the Dallas Chapter and a longtime friend of organi...Read more >

• Let’s Get Around in Texas

  April 20, 2024: The Texas Alliance for Retired Americans is strong, but mostly in the cities. We're willing to help build retiree meetings anywhere in the state. All we need is an organizer with a place to meet, and we're on it! We're also sponsoring statewide me...Read more >

• KFF Health News: The Burden of Getting Medical Care Can Exhaust Older Patients

  March 27, 2024: Susanne Gilliam, 67, was walking down her driveway to get the mail in January when she slipped and fell on a patch of black ice. Pain shot through her left knee and ankle. After summoning her husband on her phone, with difficulty she made it back ...Read more >

• Primary Voting Is Underway

  February 05, 2024: Complete lists of union-endorsed Texas candidates are available on-line. Central Labor Councils are completing their local endorsements before in-person early voting begins February 20. Those who signed up early for vote-by-mail already have their ba...Read more >