Senior Living Advocates Storm Capitol Hill in Biggest ALFA Fly-In Event Ever

More than 120 ALFA members and senior living advocates from across the nation – from New York to California – left an impressive footprint on Capitol Hill last week with the largest single advocacy event ever held by the Assisted Living Federation of America.
Participants raised awareness of assisted living as a great  long-term care option [...]

No Place for Union Strikes in
Senior Living

Posted by Paul Williams
Senior Director of Government Relations, ALFA
On Tuesday, the largest transportation union in Philadelphia went on strike over wage, pension, and health-care issues. As a result, thousands of citizens who rely on Philadelphia’s buses, subways, and trolleys were forced to find alternative transportation, and many were unable to do so. For many of [...]

Talk of EFCA Compromise Surprises Senate Democrats

By Paul Williams, Senior Director of Government Relations, ALFA
This week at the AFL-CIO conference, Sen. Arlen Specter (D-PA) announced that a compromise for the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) had been worked out in the Senate, and predicted the legislation would be passed by the end of the year. This caught several key Senate democrats [...]

Long, Hot, Political Summer

The last few weeks have shown us an uptic in political activism at congressional town halls throughout the nation. ALFA encourages members to engage their elected officials, but to do so thoughtfully and with cooler heads than some we’ve seen.