The Department of Veterans Affairs says the hours at the Salem Veterans Clinic will be expanded. Formerly, the clinic was open just two days each month, the only such facility in the state not regularly open five days a week. The clinic will now be open Monday through Friday from 8 AM to 4:30 PM, with an onsite health care provider available on Thursdays and Fridays.

When news spread this summer of big price increases for EpiPens, the devices used to inject epinephrine to stop an allergic reaction, public disbelief and outcry followed. The price for the potentially life-saving medication had risen nearly 10-fold in less than a decade.

The politicians shut up after the election, but the sleazy salesmen and con artists are still ringing your phone with robocalls. There is now a glimmer of hope for those of us tired of running to the phone to hear recorded messages from phony IRS agents threatening us with jail unless we send them money right away.

Salem Veterans Clinic hours will expand from two days per month to Monday through Friday each week, the Department of Veterans Affairs announced Friday. The clinic was the only such facility in the state not regularly open five days a week.

Congressional reports can be a snooze. But that is not how I’d characterize Wednesday’s in-depth account of price gouging among prescription drug makers. The 130-page narrative prepared by the United States Senate Special Committee on Aging was juicy, detailing how four pharmaceutical companies have taken advantage of our health care system to enrich themselves and their executives, harming patients and taxpayers.

Here's the question Americans should always be asking every member of Congress: Who are you fighting for? Here's who I'm fighting for: Billy Hull.

The Salem VA clinic has increased its hours to full time from the previous two days a month, according to the clinic’s leaders. The facility is now open Monday through Friday from 8 to 4:30 p.m. for all business office and triage needs.

The Department of Veterans Affairs said Friday that it will expand the operating hours at the Salem Veterans Clinic. It will be open Monday through Friday instead of just two days each month. It was the only VA clinic in the state not regularly open five days a week.

Here’s the question Americans should always be asking every member of Congress: who are you fighting for. Here’s who I’m fighting for: Billy Hull. Billy Hull is a retired coal miner with nearly 30 years working at the Peabody Coal Power Mine near Montrose, Missouri.

Senator Claire McCaskill, responding to what she has called troubling weaknesses in protections for whistle-blowers, has asked federal agencies to provide information on senior managers who may have retaliated against employees who reported wrongdoing.

Angered by skyrocketing drug prices, a pair of senators on Wednesday urged Congress to block companies from cornering the market on old, off-patent drugs. Sens. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., and Susan Collins, R-Maine, released findings from a yearlong investigation into companies such as Turing Pharmaceuticals, which generated national outrage last year after hiking the price of a life-saving anti-infection drug by more than 5,000 percent.

An increasing number of older Americans are having problems with student loan debt — so much so that their Social Security checks are being reduced because the federal government is withholding loan repayments. And those reductions result in Social Security recipients falling below the poverty line.

America is headed for a retirement crisis. As the baby boomers clock out for good, many will find themselves unable to pay for their golden years. The reduction of Social Security benefits (via the increase in the retirement age), the death of defined-benefit pensions, the growing life expectancy of those who make it to 65, and years of extremely low interest rates have all conspired to leave America’s seniors in desperate straits.

On the heels of headline-grabbing price spikes on prescription drugs, a bipartisan Senate report on Wednesday will call on Congress to take action to prevent huge, unjustified cost increases on decades-old prescription medicines that have no competition.

It's not just millennials who are burdened with student loans. 

A growing number of older Americans are having their Social Security income garnished by the government to pay off student debt that is often decades old and in default.

A U.S. Senate committee is calling for the government to stop the “monopoly business model” employed by some drug companies to exorbitantly raise the price of decades-old treatments in a report that could preview legislation next year.

Missouri’s Sen. Claire McCaskill will be the top-ranking Democrat on a powerful Senate committee that oversees federal government operations and homeland security. As a former state auditor, McCaskill considered the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee an important part of her work in the U.S. Senate from “day one,” she said in an interview Tuesday.

In an effort to recover millions of dollars in unpaid student debt, the government has been increasingly taking money from Social Security recipients’ checks. Since 2001, the government has collected about $1.1 billion from recipients of all ages, with $171 million in 2015 alone.