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Jobless Rate Edges Down for Older Workers

Posted on 07/6/2012 by | Money and Work | Comments

Bulletin Today | Work | Your LifeThe following is a guest blog from John Burgess, money editor on AARP’s content creation team. Fifty-five and older and looking for a job? There was a bit of good news for your age group in the federal government’s jobs report for June. The jobless rate for older workers fell to 6.2 percent, from 6.5 percent in May. But employers did not bestow the bounty equally among men and women. While the rate for older men fell from 7.0 percent in …

Can the Nation’s Foreclosure Capital Bounce Back?

Posted on 05/25/2012 by | Politics | Comments

Bulletin Today | PoliticsSusan Milligan is visiting six Election 2012 battleground states to talk with 50-plus voters for a report that will be published in the September issue of the AARP Bulletin. She posted this from Las Vegas. So maybe the unemployment rate here is still above 12 percent. So maybe the housing bubble burst like a nuclear explosion, taking down housing values and leaving legions of homeowners underwater on their mortgages. So what? This is Las Vegas, where most people still believe …

The Long-Term Unemployed: Who’s Been Hurt More?

Posted on 05/23/2012 by | Money and Work | Comments

Bulletin Today | Money & Savings | WorkStubbornly high unemployment has thrown workers of all ages into a tizzy. But the question of which age group has suffered most is something the experts can’t agree on. A recent Government Accountability Office report found that many older unemployed workers “face long-term unemployment and reduced retirement security.” It called on Labor Department officials to look at new strategies to help older workers find jobs. Public policy experts the GAO interviewed suggested these and other steps: • Give employers temporary wage …

Some Political Advice from the Dance Floor: Don’t Just Stand There . . .

Posted on 05/23/2012 by | Politics | Comments

Bulletin Today | PoliticsSusan Milligan is visiting six Election 2012 battleground states to talk with 50-plus voters for a report that will be published in the September issue of the AARP Bulletin. She posted this from Fairfax, Virginia. Wanna shag? It’s a question that might get your face slapped in a pub in England, where the word refers to an intimate encounter. But in Virginia and southward, shag is a couple’s dance. And at Icons, a popular restaurant and dance hall in Fairfax, …

Helping the Unemployed Recover After the End of the Space Shuttle Program

Posted on 05/15/2012 by | Volunteering | Comments

WorkThis is a guest post by Dan Kulpinski. Kulpinski is a web writer and producer for the AARP Foundation. Space Shuttle Discovery piggybacked a ride over Washington, D.C., April 17, drawing many oohs and ahhs and prompting many folks here at AARP headquarters to go up to the roof or down to the National Mall to see the spectacle. The event reminded us that the shuttle era is over, but in Brevard County, Florida – home to the Kennedy Space …

The Takeaway: Number of Long-Term Unemployed Workers 55+ Rose Sharply Since 2007

Posted on 05/15/2012 by | Brooklyn, NY | Comments

News RoundupsA new Government Accountability Office report says 55 percent of jobless older adults—or 1.1 million Americans 55 and older—have been unemployed for more than six months, up from 23 percent just four years ago. The report was addressed to the Senate Special Committee on Aging, which begins a hearing on older adults and unemployment issues today. Led by Sen. Herb Kohl, the Committee will investigate age discrimination in the workforce and ways to boost older workers’ job prospects.

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