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5 Key Lessons for Engaging Volunteers Online
Does your organization struggle to recruit volunteers for your cause? If so, you are not alone. There are countless groups competing for “share of heart” from folks who are willing to lend their time...
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El cuidado de los nuestros retorna al hogar
Por siglos, los hogares nos han dado un techo, un lugar para criar una familia. Después, los hogares tomaron un sitio de honor y se convirtieron en nuestros propios castillos. Y en décadas recientes,...
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Social Security Remains Strong Overall and Separate From the Budget
Social Security remains strong as seen in today’s long-term projected outlook by the Social Security Trustees. While today’s report reminds us that we must eventually make modest changes to ensure...
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2014 Medicare Trustees Report Urges Responsible Solutions
The Medicare Trustees report today reminds us of the financial challenges facing Medicare, along with the overall high cost of health care. With 64 million Americans expected to be enrolled in Medicare...
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Cut Social Security? Say Goodbye to Older Voters
Seventy-nine years after its creation, Social Security remains a vital key to Americans’ retirement security. And with the 2014 elections less than three months away, strengthening the program is a top...
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What Happens to Your Pension When the Company Goes Bust?
Image: Gerald Ford Foundation Studebaker auto workers found out the hard way in 1963. When the Studebaker Corp. shut down its plant in South Bend, Ind., workers who had been promised pensions saw their...
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Celebrating All Grandparents
Today we honor Marian McQuade of West Virginia. In the 1970s, McQuade worked tirelessly to educate people about the important contributions of older Americans, and she urged Americans to “adopt a...
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Questions Candidates Should Answer to Get Your Vote
Election Day is almost here. Yet too many candidates wait until after the polls close before taking positions on key issues that matter to you and your family. That’s why AARP developed voters’ guides...
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I Heart Caregivers
As we enter National Family Caregivers Month, I think back to the time I spent as a caregiver to my mom. For 12 years I was by her side, through diabetes, congestive heart failure, hospitalizations...
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Caregiving Crosses Political Lines
At kitchen tables across America, real families are confronting the same question: How will we care for Mom and Dad (or another loved one) if something happens and they can’t take care of themselves?...
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Celebrate 62 Million Strong During National Volunteer Week
Every month, I learn about a new holiday or commemorative date to raise awareness. From the sublime to the ridiculous, there are 30 such commemorations in April, including Vitamin C Day and Wear Your...
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Investing in Transportation Strengthens the Economy and Saves Lives
Memorial Day marks the beginning of summer travel. But our nation’s transportation system is fraying at the seams. The pride we once took in the roads, bridges, and rails built by the Greatest...
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AARP Praises House Ways and Means Committee Effort to Find Bipartisan...
On July 9, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI), in his opening statement in the House Ways and Means Committee, said, “Subcommittee Chairman Sam Johnson has been working on...
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Ambassador Froman, Don’t Let the Trans-Pacific Partnership Restrict Access to...
AARP continues to voice its serious concerns about the current draft of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a massive trade agreement that will affect millions of people here in the U.S. and abroad...
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New Bill in Congress Aims to Support Family Caregivers
Forty million Americans care for their older parents, spouses and other loved ones to help them live independently, at home, each and every day — I am one of them. We family caregivers help with...
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Senate Transportation Bill Promotes Safety for Pedestrians and All Road Users
We must make our streets safer! Today in our country a pedestrian suffers an injury every eight minutes and one is killed every two hours! That’s been an upward trend in recent years. In the decade...
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With No COLA Increase, Congress Should Pass Medicare Fix
AARP sent the following letter to Congress on Oct. 14. AARP has deep concern that for only the third time in over 40 years, there will be no Social Security cost-of-living adjustment for 2016. To make...
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Sin aumento de COLA, el Congreso debería aprobar ‘Medicare Fix’
En inglés | AARP envió la siguiente carta al Congreso el 14 de octubre. Congreso de EE.UU. AARP se muestra preocupada ya que por tercera vez en 40 años, no habrá un ajuste por costo de vida para los...
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Celebrating Family Caregivers
November is National Family Caregivers Month and the perfect time to recognize the tens of millions of Americans who help older parents, spouses, adult children with disabilities, and other loved ones...
View ArticleAARP Urges U.S. Senate to Pass RAISE Act to Support Family Caregivers
BREAKING UPDATE 12/9/15: The RAISE Family Caregivers Act passed the U.S. Senate on December 8 by unanimous consent. “On the Senate health committee, we have the opportunity to work on legislation that...
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