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Retirement Community Fights To Evict 6-Year-Old Girl (VIDEO)

Posted 10.21.2009 | Home

Read More: Kimberly Broffman, Senior Citizens, Children, Eviction, Retirement Community, Florida, Housing Crisis, Kimberly Stottler, Parenting, Grandparents, Real Estate, 6 Yearold, Home News

A retirement community in Largo, Florida is fighting to evict six-year-old Kimberly Broffman from the home of her grandparents Jimmy and Judie Stottle...

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Senior Citizens Group Pledges To "Re-Evaluate" Its Scare Mailer

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Senior Citizens League Mailer, Slideshow, Senior Citizens League Funderbruk, Senior Citizens League, Private Data, Scare Tactics, Senior Citizens, Senior Citizens League Mailer Seniors, Politics News

A senior issues group that caused an uproar by sending out a mailer jam-packed with misleading scare tactics regarding health care reform now says it ...

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Senior Citizens League Mailer The Holy Grail Of Elderly Scare Tactics

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Funderbruk Mailer, Senior Citizens League Funderbruk, Senior Citizens League Mailer Seniors, Senior Citizens, Senior Citizens League Mailer, Private Data, Scare Tactics, Senior Citizens League, Slideshow, Politics News

A new mailer being sent to senior citizens warns that Democratic-considered health care reform would result in the rationing of care and the creation ...

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Social Security Payments: $250 Checks Proposed By Obama For Seniors

washingtonpost.com | Neil Irwin | Posted 10.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Social Security Cost-of-Living Adjustment, Senior Citizens, Social Security, $250 Checks, Barack Obama, Business News

Congressional leaders welcomed President Obama's proposal to make $250 payments to Social Security recipients Thursday, as a government report confirm...

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AARP Struggles To Win Over Membership On Health Reform

The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Aarp, Senior Citizens, Lobbyblog, AARP Health Care Reform, AARP Lobbying, Politics News

The Hill reports that health care reform has proven the most divisive issue tackled by influential lobbying group AARP. Nancy LeaMond, who heads the ...

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NY Department Of Aging Employs Idle School Buses For Senior Day Trips

New York Times City Room | Sarah Maslin Nir | Posted 10.14.2009 | New York

Read More: School Buses, Senior Mobility, Meals on Wheels, Department of Aging, Aging, New York Department of Education, New York Department of Aging, Senior Citizens, New York, New York City, Ageism, New York News

Gossiping and laughing, they climbed onto the big yellow school bus on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn on Tuesday morning. But the 20 people clambering ab...

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Bankrupt Retirees: Older Americans Are Most Likely To Declare Bankruptcy

Newsweek | Linda Stern | Posted 10.14.2009 | Business

Read More: Age Group, Debt, Age Groups, Bankruptcy, Age, Retirement, Older, Bankruptcy Rates, Recession, Rates, Senior Citizens, Mortgage, Aarp, Personal Finance, Demographics, Business News

Older Americans are heading into and through retirement with a boatload of debt. They're carrying everything from mortgages and home-equity loans to b...

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AHIP Million-Dollar Ad Campaign Targets Seniors

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Senior Citizens, Ahip Reform Campaign, Million Dollar Ads, Ahip Ad Campaign, Health Care Reform, Ahip Million Dollars, Ad Campaign Reform, AHIP Ad Seniors, AHIP Elderly, AHIP Seniors, Politics News

In a late-effort push to alter or torpedo health care reform, the major lobby for private insurers has made a multi-state, million-dollar ad purchase ...

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The Crime of the Century

Gov. Dick Lamm | Posted 10.05.2009 | Denver

Read More: Entitlements, Intergenerational Equity, Colorado Politics, Senior Citizens, Social Security, Health Care Reform, Medicare, Medicaid, Home Ownership, Denver News

Never before has one group appropriated as much money that belonged to another group in the history of crime. It was literally and figuratively as easy as taking candy out of the mouths of children.

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Social Security Strained By Job Losses, Early Retirements

AP | STEPHEN OHLEMACHER | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Social Security, Senior Citizens, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Big job losses and a spike in early retirement claims from laid-off seniors will force Social Security to pay out more in benefits ...

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Fort Morgan Athletes Featured By 9 News

Fort Morgan Times. | Fort Morgan Times | Posted 09.25.2009 | Home

Read More: Fort Morgan High School, 9 News, Community Service, Senior Citizens, Athletes, Fort Morgan, Colorado, Denver, Home News

Jesse Home of Denver’s 9News TV station came to Fort Morgan on Friday to document all the effort the local prep sports teams have made to help o...

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Junk Removers Find Heart-Breaking Wreckage In Foreclosed Homes

The Huffington Post | Julian Hattem | Posted 09.24.2009 | Business

Read More: Senior Citizens, News, Business News

As the Huffington Post continues to bear witness to the effects of the current economic environment on ordinary Americans, we've found additional comp...

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Americans Abroad Debate Healthcare Reform

Denise Dennis | Posted 09.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Senior Citizens, Public Option, Health Care Reform, Pawlenty-Nullification, Health Insurance, Democratic Party, Racism in Politics, Obama Health Care, Republican Party, Politics News

PARIS -- September 22 -- The heated debate over healthcare reform continued last week in an unlikely place, the cobblestone courtyard of an apartmen...

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National Health Care: Making a Trip to Antarctica Possible

Tamar Abrams | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Elderly, Teabaggers, Senior Citizens, Military, Antarctica, Joe Wilson, Health Care Reform, Tricare, Health Care, Champus, Wiesbaden, Politics News

I don't know that TRICARE is the best possible care, but I can point to my parents, who still ride their tandem bike every day and swim every day and are healthy enough to plan a January trip to Antarctica.

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Men Dress As Female Nurses To Steal From Seniors

The Denver Post | Howard Pankratz | Posted 09.18.2009 | Denver

Read More: Senior Citizens, Nurse, Theft, Colorado Crime, Denver News

Nursing-home residents in the Denver area are being targeted by a ring of male thieves who pass themselves off as female nurses to gain entrance to se...

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Biden To Move To Health Care Frontlines With Major Address

The Washington Post | Ceci Connolly | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Senior Citizens, Joe Biden, National-Association-of-Insurance-Commissioners, Politics News

Fresh off his trip to Iraq, Vice President Biden will wade deep into the health-care debate next week, according to administration sources. Biden is ...

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We Who Are About to Die Will Bankrupt You!

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Lung Cancer, Health Care Bill, Melanoma, Senior Citizens, Medical Conditions, President Obama, Medical Care, Health Insurance, Medical Costs, Medicare, Health Care, Politics News

The President's plan seems to be getting nowhere, and we who already have Medicare can just say "The hell with it." But I think we'd better all give it more thought, and somebody ought to think about a solution rather than shout, "No, no, no."

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Obama Healthcare Speech: How To Watch it

New York Times | David M. Herszenhorn | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Susan Collins, Raul Grijalva, Mike Ross, Ben Nelson, Senior Citizens, Chuck Grassley, Public Option, Mike Enzi, Olympia Snowe, President Obama, Medicare, Bipartisanship, Mary Landrieu, Healthcare Reform, Politics News

In his speech to Congress at 8 p.m. Wednesday, President Obama will press his case for major health care legislation, not just with lawmakers in the a...

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Palin Details Death Panels From Facebook

Shannyn Moore | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Death Panel Defense, Death Panils, Health Care Reform, Senior Citizens, Sarah Palin, New York Senate Aging Committee, Health Choices Act, Reverend Ruben Diaz, Politics News

This just in from Palin's facebook as part of her educating the public on "Death Panels." Why she keeps signing "governor" is beyond me. She quit...or...

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Revised formula counts more Americans in poverty

AP | HOPE YEN | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Elderly, Poverty, Senior Citizens, National Academy of Science, Aarp, Poverty Rate, Business News

WASHINGTON — The poverty rate among older Americans could be nearly twice as high as the traditional 10 percent level, according to a revision o...

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Older Americans Forced To Stay In Jobs Because Of Recession

AP | HOPE YEN | Posted 10.19.2009 | Business

Read More: Older Americans, Senior Citizens, Retirement, Business News

WASHINGTON — Older Americans will make up virtually all of the growth in the U.S. work force in the coming years as a nearly unprecedented numbe...

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AARP Seeks More Neutral Image After Shedding Thousands Of Members

USA Today | Mimi Hall | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Senior Citizens, Death Panels, Lobbyists, Michael Steele, Barry Rand, Aarp, Jennie Chin Hansen, Medicare, Alliance-for-Retired-Americans, Health Care, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- AARP, which has lost tens of thousands of members over its support for efforts to revamp the health care system, is preparing a post-Lab...

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Anticipating the Incapacitated Justice

Jacob M. Appel | Posted 09.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Medical Ethics, Supreme Court, Law, US Supreme Court, Supreme Court Justices, Senior Citizens, Living Wills, Constitution, Bioethics, Death, Politics News

While it is a disturbing truth that our nation will someday likely confront the tragedy of an incapacitated Supreme Court justice, it is not at all clear which justice that will be.

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