
What would increase funding for the Older Americans Act mean in terms of keeping seniors well nourished, keeping them in better mental health?
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What would increase funding for the Older Americans Act mean in terms of keeping seniors well nourished, keeping them in better mental health?

It's not a question of quelling frustration, Dana. It's a question of feeding starving children. We are looking at one of the great humanitarian crises in modern history.

no senior in America should be left hungry or isolated.

The Older Americans Act provides Federal funding for many essential services for our Nation's seniors.

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The Older Americans Act: Supporting Efforts to Meet the Needs of Seniors.

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Importantly, and this is maybe the main point of today, about 45 percent of funding from the Older Americans Act is used to provide meals to millions of frail and isolated seniors.

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we pay ten times more for the same products that people in other countries pay.

I think it's an important message. Look, we as Americans are going to have different points of view, political points of view. But I would hope that every American appreciates that hundreds of thousands of men and women who put their lives…

In my view, both from a moral and from an economic perspective, we cannot turn our backs on the millions and millions of seniors who are hurting and who desperately need our help today.

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