Unearth Your Jewish Ancestry
Though parts of history were lost in the Holocaust, you can still find out a lot about your family roots My grandfather, Max Hasson, a Sephardic Jew from Monastir, Turkey, left his homeland in 1915 when he was 19 for a better life in America. He always told us that the Hasson family escaped the […]
Women Farmers On The Rise
by Judi Hasson | for AARP Bulletin | June 10, 2011 Robin Dunn has some big boots to fill. She’s the fourth generation of her family to farm some 1,000 acres at Dunn’s Landing in Wellsville, Kan. Now 53, Dunn bought her great-grandparents’ homestead from her father in 1990, and today grows soybeans, corn, sorghum […]
Dot-Gov Goes Retail
By Judi Hasson and Graeme Browning, Federal Computer Week | 05/25/2001 Featured on USA Today Move over, Amazon.com! Make way for your newest competitor in e-retailing: the federal government. In the first comprehensive study of its kind, Federal Computer Week and the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that the government has become more […]
Emergency Departments Scale Back Opioid Prescribing
By JUDI HASSON | March 17, 2017 | Politico Prescription Pulse One of the busiest emergency rooms in the country just last year introduced a landmark plan to put the brakes on prescribing opioids as the first choice of relief from acute pain. It worked. Now dozens of emergency rooms are following the protocol introduced […]
Deadly Railroad Crossings Challenge States
By Judi Hasson | March 31, 2016 On a rain-soaked evening in December, 70-year-old Phyllis LeBlanc and her husband, Steven, were ferrying home her 12-year-old twin grandsons from their birthday party at a Lafayette, Louisiana, trampoline park. Two of the twins’ friends were in the car with them. LeBlanc was driving northeast on Louisiana Highway […]
Mass Transit: Cities Embrace Big-Ticket Transit Projects
By Judi Hasson | January 07, 2016 This story has been updated to say the federal transportation bill would allocate $12 billion annually to mass transit. Cities across the country are moving forward with mass transit projects, despite the required tax hikes and cheap gasoline that encourages commuters to drive their cars. Voters approved 24 […]
Forming the next government
By Judi Hasson | for America.gov | 31 October 2008 New U.S. Citizens Prepare to Vote in 2008 Election First-time voters ready for an Election Day they believe will be historic Washington — David Vanca, a native of the Czech Republic, has plenty to celebrate this year. He became a U.S. citizen on September 22 […]
Disability Benefits on a Fast Track
BY JUDI HASSON | FROM KIPLINGER’S RETIREMENT REPORT | 2014 An applicant with a medical condition that’s included in Social Security’s ‘compassionate allowances’ program can get a benefits decision within days. It used to be that some people with serious disabilities would die before the Social Security Administration finally got around to reviewing their applications […]
Legal Checklist for Caregivers
by Judi Hasson | from AARP | December 7, 2012 If you’re a caregiver, part of your job may be to keep track of your loved one’s legal affairs. And you probably know — or are learning — that it’s a big responsibility. “The ultimate goal is to make sure you have all the decision-making […]
6 Tax Tips for Family Caregivers
by Judi Hasson | AARP | Updated January 2015 Learn what to do to save money, qualify for some federal breaks If you’re paying all or part of the cost of caring for a parent or another relative, you may qualify for some federal tax breaks. And who couldn’t use the extra money? Just make […]