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AARP Statement on Historic Health Insurance Reform Package

March 19, 2010

Today, AARP Board Chair Bonnie M. Cramer, M.S.W., announced the Association’s support for health insurance reform legislation containing key reform provisions that will improve health care for older Americans and their families. For more than two years, AARP has fought for health insurance reform that helps Americans 50-plus get the care and medications they need at a price they can afford. Cramer’s statement follows: More...

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AARP Statement on the Senate Labor, Health and Human Services and Education Appropriations Bill

March 18, 2010

AARP Executive Vice President, Nancy LeaMond released the following statement to leaders of the Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies Committee on Appropriations, as they prepare for consideration of the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill for FY2011:  More...

AARP Applauds Vote for Transportation Fixes in Today’s Jobs Bill

March 17, 2010

AARP Executive Vice President Nancy LeaMond today reacted to the extension of surface transportation programs through December 31 included in the Jobs Bill: More...

AARP Expands Career Resources for Older Workers

March 16, 2010

In an effort to step up its drive to assist workers 50+ struggling during this time of high unemployment around the country, AARP is sponsoring multiple career fairs specifically designed to help mature job seekers in 2010. AARP will sponsor 48 career fairs in 19 states—including a special event in Atlanta on March 22—which have high unemployment rates of 10 percent or more for older workers: More...

AARP Tells Congress: Continue Progress on Health Care Reform

March 16, 2010

Today, AARP Board chair Bonnie M. Cramer, M.S.W., joined Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and other Members of Congress to continue the call for health care reform: More...

AARP to Senate: Americans Deserve an Independent Consumer Protection Agency with Full Authority to Protect Consumers

March 15, 2010

In response to Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd’s unveiling of the anticipated financial regulatory reform bill, Nancy LeaMond, AARP Executive Vice President, released the following statement: More...

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