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...organization's survey of state statistics. "The President and congressional leaders said their top priority was to sign up low-income seniors, so this is terribly disappointing," says Ron Pollack, executive director of Families USA. "These are the people who need the help the most." Medicare spokesman Peter Ashkenaz acknowledges that the low-income elderly have been "a difficult group to reach," but he points out that they are exempt from the May 15 deadline and officials will continue to try to sign up more of them throughout the year...
...Social Work at the University of Pennsylvania, notes, "Seniors and those in the work force don't understand that the survival of the Social Security system is really dependent on the future of our children." Or perhaps they do: aarp has endorsed the Stand, in part, says spokesman Peter Ashkenaz, because so many grandparents are rearing children...
...most numerous today are the ASHKENAZIC Jews, who became an important group in the Rhineland about the 10th century. They take their name from the medieval Hebrew name for Germany, Ashkenaz. The Ashkenazim, who spread across Europe and to North and South America, suffered most of the casualties in the Hitler years, but still account for some 84% of the world's Jews...
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