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Alex Lawson

Alex Lawson is the executive director of Social Security Works, a non-profit advocacy group that supports expanding benefits to address America’s growing retirement security crisis. Lawson has appeared on numerous TV and radio outlets and is a frequent guest host of The “Thom Hartmann Program,” one of the top progressive radio shows in the country.

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France to require all large parking lots to be covered by solar panels

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This photo taken Thursday, July 9, 2015, is the headquarters of Gilead Sciences in Foster City, Calif. Harvoni, the newest pill from California-based Gilead Sciences, accounted for more than three-fourths of the prescriptions filled for hepatitis-C drugs in the first three months of this year, according to IMS Health. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

U.S. taxpayers already paid for COVID-19 treatments — we cannot let Big Pharma make us pay again

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FILE - In this Jan. 11, 2013, file photo, the Social Security Administration's main campus is seen in Woodlawn, Md. More than 60 million retirees, disabled workers, spouses and children rely on monthly Social Security benefits. That’s nearly one in five Americans. The trustees who oversee Social Security say the program has enough money to pay full benefits until 2034. But at that point, Social Security will collect only enough taxes to pay 79 percent of benefits. Unless Congress acts, millions of people on fixed incomes would get an automatic 21 percent cut in benefits. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File) (AP)

The Trump administration has just declared war on Social Security

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Why Bernie Sanders is backing Cory Booker’s plan to tackle big pharma’s soaring prices

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Dear politicians: Lower drug prices now

Nancy J. Altman, Alex Lawson
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Nobody likes getting ripped off by pharmaceutical corporations

Alex Lawson, Stephanie Taylor
FILE - In this Jan. 10, 2017 file photo, Seema Verma, left, nominee for administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, gets on an elevator in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York. Verma was confirmed by the Senate on March 13. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci File) (AP)

Why Trump’s goon in charge of Medicare and Medicaid should resign immediately

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Pramila Jayapal; Bernie Sanders (AP/Elaine Thompson/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Medicare For All will drastically lower prescription drug prices by taking on Pharma’s greed

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America’s seniors are drowning in lies by Trump and Republicans to boost Big Pharma

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Donald Trump and Republicans work every day to destroy Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid

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