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Strapping young men of the College: Uncle Sam wants you for his armed forces, and you ought to feel honored. But I can top that. The AARP wants me. Yes, you read correctly. The American Association of Retired Persons invited me to join their elderly legions this week. There's nothing like it to make a person feel special...
...other hand, the American Association of Retired Persons finds age discrimination still "pervasive." In a not-yet-published study, it dispatched pairs of "testers," one 57 and one 32, to apply for 102 entry-level sales or management positions. Result: though they presented equal credentials, says AARP, the older applicants received less favorable responses 41.2% of the time. Three-quarters of those responses occurred before the older applicants had even been granted an interview. Sally Dunaway, an AARP lawyer, says bias is hurting "people at younger and younger ages. It used...
Generally, says AARP, employment agencies are part of the problem rather than the solution. In fact, its about-to-be-published study asserts, agencies discriminate more often and more blatantly than employers who hire directly. "With or without explicit instructions from their clients," says AARP, "many employment agencies assume that older applicants...should be automatically screened...
...providers who are exploiting the system and exploiting our seniors ?- we'll pay you to report it," Gore said Wednesday at the 40th-anniversary convention of the American Association of Retired Persons. Is this what the golden years are supposed to be about? Well, the "retired persons" part of "AARP" has always been a bit of a canard; the 50-year-old Gore will be picking up his own AARP card at the convention, and you know he's not planning to retire anytime soon...
...this evidence of evil distortion by special interest contributions? Not so fast. While the AARP is quite effective at pursuing its interests, the group doesn't buy politicians. In fact, it makes no donations to politicians at all. Instead, it threatens to boot them out at the ballot box--with the help of its 33 million members. The threat of seniors' wrath, not the lure of their cash, is the key to the vast, seemingly unstoppable growth of Social Security and Medicare...