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With baby boomers making up half of Congress, the conversation on aging and health in public office from the Capitol to the White House isn't going away, Axios' April Rubin reports. The 118th Congress is one of the oldest in U.S. history — and drives debates about fitness for office, term limits and ageism. The Senate's average age is 64, compared to the House's 57.

From the beginning, hospice was as much an ethos as a health care job. The earliest providers were uniformly nonprofit endeavors. With the 1982 advent of full Medicare reimbursement, hospice came to provide exceptional and humane end-of-life ministration, with nurses and counselors prepared for everything from palliative care to bereavement support to spiritual advice for families. Yet in the last two decades, at first slowly and then in an onslaught, the field of hospice has been transformed. An influx of for-profit operations, drawn to potentially vast profit margins, dominates the field. Now, in some corners, cost-cutting and profiteering are the order of the day, with direct consequences for patients. And of course, Medicare, the public dollar, is underwriting their extraordinary returns.

In 2022, 19% of U.S. workers were in jobs which the most important activities may be replaced or assisted by artificial intelligence tools. Higher-paid workers, as well as those who are women, Asian or college-educated, are more exposed to AI than other groups. However, many workers in high-exposure industries predict AI will help more than hurt them personally in the coming years.Key questions in this report:: Who is most exposed? | Do workers think their jobs are at risk? | What types of AI-related tech do businesses use?