Now with the threat of EEE in the Bay State rising, state senators are speaking up to bring change.
Senators Markey and Warren are pressing health officials for additional research on EEE, a deadly disease that is still surrounded by questions.
...U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) now says it will reopen certain medical deferred action cases, including for a number of Boston-area immigrants who previously received denial letters.
The announcement comes after a tumultuous week in which federal agencies contradicted one...
After a week of confusion around a long-standing medical deferment program for immigrants with serious illnesses, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Friday made things clear: the program no longer exists.
ICE spokesperson Shawn Neudauer told WBUR in a statement...
Three members of Massachusetts’ congressional delegation are questioning the Trump administration’s decision to divert immigration officers from Northeast offices to assist with processing asylum cases at the southern border, leaving behind a backlog of 40,000 New England cases.
In a letter...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) blasted the chief of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for appointing a high-ranking official from a scandal-plagued loan servicer to be the Bureau’s new student-loan watchdog.
On Monday, Warren’s office released three fiery letters the senator had...
The Massachusetts senator and the House majority whip, Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.), introduced the Student Loan Debt Relief Act on Tuesday. The bill would eliminate student debt entirely for 75% of borrowers and partially for another 20% of borrowers. “[Student...
The Massachusetts senator, in tandem with colleagues on Capitol Hill, introduced what she calls the “Stop Wall Street Looting Act.”
Warren framed her proposal as an effort to shrink the amount of money wasted on...
Elizabeth Warren made it clear [that she wants] to be a populist crusader who doubled as a check on the power of corporations and the super-rich. She proposed a “wealth tax,” a 2 percent tax on families with assets over $50 million...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) released a plan Tuesday for creating a “universal child care” system in the United States paid for by a tax on the very wealthy. The plan proposed by Warren would ensure that every American would be able to...
Elizabeth Warren’s plan, the Universal Child Care and Early Learning Act, would create a network of government-funded care centers based partly on the existing Head Start network, with employees paid comparably to public-school teachers. Families earning less than 200 percent...
Elizabeth Warren is widely known for her public battles with big banks and Wall Street. She’s gotten attention for her wealth tax proposal. She’s praised, even by some conservatives, for her book The Two-Income Trap. As a US senator for Massachusetts, Warren...