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...editorial director of Esquire. And as the editorial director of Harper’s Bazaar. As the editor-in-chief of New Woman, too. She even successfully catered to the “early retiree” demographic when she founded My Generation, an AARP magazine for the 50-to-60-year-old set (“not working, still swinging?...
...have had a less salutary effect on many patients. The Washington-based American Association of Retired Persons has received hundreds of letters from patients who claim they were kicked out of hospitals prematurely. "Some still had high temperatures, draining wounds, and were feeling terrible," says Barbara Herzog, director of AARP's health-care campaign. "Many had no one to care for them properly at home and could not get admission into a nursing home...
...citizens organization, is gearing up to lobby at Florida's next legislative session. Some are knitting, but they're all as ready as ever to "kick butt and take names," as one says. Yet the issues they're tackling this morning--universal preschool and youth-delinquency prevention--are hardly AARP mainstays. A woman lays down her knitting needles when a guest speaker from the Early Childhood Initiative Foundation laments that last year more than 500 kids under age 12 were arrested in Miami-Dade County. "Kids and elderly--we're both vulnerable," says Harvey Sootin, 78, a Panther legislative expert...
...need to make sure its success continues. AARP is working hard on this, and I hope you will help out by opposing private accounts carved out of Social Security. We need to shore up this vital program for the long-term, but we need to do it right...
William D. Novelli is Chief Executive Officer of the AARP...