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...federal budget through such programs as Social Security and Medicare. And policy experts fear that the coming wave of seniors could swamp those programs--leaving a gift of higher taxes and reduced benefits for their kids. "The crisis is coming--we know that," says Bill Novelli, CEO of AARP...
Retirement can really rock. Octogenarian Tony Bennett last week announced a 20-city U.S. tour titled The Best Is Yet to Come, starting early next year and sponsored exclusively by AARP...
Flexible employment--flex time, part time, job sharing and telecommuting--is more and more important to today's workers, and it's among the top criteria AARP uses when choosing its annual Best Employers for Workers over 50 list. Mercy Health System in Janesville, Wis., another health-care provider, topped the list last month partly because of its snowbird program, which is designed to make it easy for staff members to escape Wisconsin's brutal winters. Carondelet and Mercy are the only two companies on the AARP list of 50 with snowbird programs, but Deborah Russell, who puts together...
...fall-off in its second and third weeks. I had a pretty good, regressive time at it - I've always kind of liked movies about airplanes that get the wobbles somewhere in mid-flight - but I don't really think it has a lot of crossover potential with the AARP crowd. Which means, I think, that cheapish movies can be cheaply, effectively promoted via the Net - more bad news for the people who sell display ads for the newspapers. I don't think, however, that the next Meryl Streep film is likely to gain a lot of traction among...
...about time someone found a way to drive that point home. Even AARP, the mother of all aging lobbies, and Wall Street, with its interest in advising folks on how to make their money last, have had trouble articulating how the longer, healthier lives of boomers will change the game. There's something sobering about a 10-minute quiz that finds your life, at 50, is barely half over. Do I have enough savings? Should I work longer? Start a business? How can I make my next 50 years count...