Over 50 leaders gathered in Albany this week for the Age Strong NYS Consensus Workshop, a two-day convening of advocates, service providers, policymakers, and community leaders. NYSARA President Barry Kaufmann represented NYSARA with representation f... Read more
Nearly 80 participants from across New York joined together for NYSARA’s Annual Convention in Latham, Sept. 4 to hear a wide range of speakers, elect NYSARA’s statewide officers and gain practical insight to help strengthen the organization’s efforts on behalf of ol... Read more
Date: September 4, 2025 10:30 am to 3:00 pm: Place: NYSUT Headquarters 800 Troy Schenectady Rd. Latham, NY Purpose: To Elect NYSARA Officers 2025 -2027, Get Information on Issues both nationally and Statewide that have impact on Senio... Read more
1. The Senate Bill Increases the Cuts to Medicaid to $1.1 trillion. Almost $300 billion more than the awful House bill. (63% of nursing home residents use Medicaid to pay) 2. Medicaid Cuts do not take place until after the Mid-term elections. Hiding... Read more
Proposed federal changes to the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP), the nation’s largest program helping households obtain food, would increase costs to state governments, limit eligibility and reduce the value of future benefits accord... Read more
The U.S. Congress just passed a federal budget that will cost the State of New York over $15 billion per year, kick 1.5 million New Yorkers off their health insurance, eliminate benefits for up to 1 million food stamp recipients, cause the loss of ove... Read more
Albany is moving through the familiar choreography of creating an annual state spending plan while it’s quite possible that whatever the leaders come up with will be blown to bits later in the year by federal cuts. Republicans in Washington are looking to... Read more
Remember during the campaign Project 2025, designed and published by the Conservative organization the Heritage Foundation when many were worried. President Trump disavowed any knowledge of it despite the fact that it had policies that Trump had attempted to imple... Read more
NYSARA President, Barry Kaufmann, is asking members to consider getting into "good trouble" as former Congressman John Lewis famously said. We are urging all NYSARA members to let their voices be heard by their elected federal representatives. Let them know that it is... Read more