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San Francisco Chronicle, July 17th, 2009It's hard to believe, but there's one section of the housing market
that's going like gangbusters: the reverse mortgage industry, aimed at
senior citizens.Responsible reverse mortgages offer a wonderful opportunity
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California Chronicle - February 24, 2009
(Sacramento) – Assemblymember Mike Feuer (D-Los Angeles) has introduced three bills to protect seniors vulnerable to abuse in nursing homes and exploitation in the marketplace. AB 392 would restore funding to
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Metlife - September 20, 2008
When asked to compare the current economy to similar situations in the past, 53% of Americans over the age of 60 said today’s economic conditions are worse than those they have experienced in the past, even though unemployment
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MSNBC - August 19, 2008
LANSING, Mich. - AARP, the national advocacy group for older Americans, is being accused of age discrimination.
Bonita Brady, a 63-year-old from Michigan, says the group passed her over for a series of jobs because she was too
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The New York Times - July 25, 2008
If you are ignoring the housing bailout bill because you think it benefits only troubled homeowners, you may miss out on a windfall.
The bill, expected to be passed by the Senate in the next few days and then signed
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BusinessWire, March 24th, 2008A coalition of reverse mortgage counseling agencies and elder care
experts announced today a collaboration to launch the National Housing
Counseling Association (NHCA).
NHCA will act as
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The New York Times, October 23rd, 2007BY the time Frederick A. O. Schwarz Jr. retired from Cravath, Swain
& Moore in 2002, he was financially set. He was already an author,
he already had a distinguished track record in public service and
philanthropy
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Salem Statesman-Journal, October 11th, 2007A top Peace Corps official will visit the Mid-Valley next week in hopes
of recruiting more 50-plus-year-olds to volunteer overseas. She’s
coming to the right place.Marion and Polk counties have
thousands of
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SFGate.com, July 6th, 2007Insurance companies derailed a bill Tuesday that would have required
them to develop rules about selling annuities to persons over 65 years
old.
The measure by Sen. Jack Scott, D-Pasadena, was scheduled to be
debated by
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Inside Bay Area, July 5th, 2007Retired college professor and helicopter pilot J.D. Perrizo was inspired after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
"I wanted to do something for the country," he said.
So when the Dublin office of the California Highway
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Orange County News, July 3rd, 2007
The increasing senior population affects Texas in many ways and the
Texas legislature knows it and they passed a bevy of bills in answer to
the coming surge of seniors.
Two sessions ago, Texas faced a huge
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KABC-TV Los Angeles, June 8th, 2007Seeking to offset a shortage of educators in California, Gov. Arnold
Schwarzenegger kicked off a program Friday to urge businesses to
encourage their retirees to become teachers.
"It's critical that we take action
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Editor's note: Consider this one of the many possibilities for the use of the money from a reverse mortgage.E-Wire, April 18th, 2007By using reverse mortgages for investing in solar
and other alternative energy we could rapidly transition away
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Rutland Herald, September 19th, 2006The booming retirement market is about to have a new source of
information available on television. John Erickson, an innovator in
retirement communities, is preparing to launch "Retirement Living," a
new television
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Chicago Sun-Times, June 21st, 2006
Retirees Espie and Don Nelson aren't spending their golden years on the golf course.
Most every day you'll
find them strolling around a different sort of greenery -- a 37-acre
prairie along Lily Cache Creek
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