Activism
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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From new careers to volunteer work, boomers redefine retirement
MSNBC, June 16th, 2006
Baby boomer Catherine Meloy used to run a radio network with more than 1,000
stations, but now she checks out the Goodwill stores she manages in the
Washington,
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US News & World Report, June 19th, 2006 (Early Edition Article)
It's summer in upstate New York, the sun is shining, and
it's time to make hay. Bill Thomas, medical doctor, gentleman farmer, and deep
thinker, heads out to take the year's first
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For retiring Baby Boomers, staying active is about more than just having fun
MSNBC, May 30th, 2006
In Bluffton, newly retired schoolteacher Andrea Flanagan and her husband, Mark,
have some big decisions to make. Not about what to do with the rest
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Looking to the '60s generation for lessons on how to plan
CNN, February 15th, 2006
In the 1960s and '70s they burned their bras and draft cards, marched on
Washington, founded Earth Day and vowed never to trust anyone over the age of
30.
Today,
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