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Health Care Access for Medicare Patients
AARP Urges Congress to Protect Access to Health Care Providers for People in Medicare Photo by Phalinn/flickr WASHINGTON— Last week, AARP, along with five other consumer and professional...
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AARP Opposes Social Security Benefit Cut as Part of Lame Duck Deficit...
WASHINGTON, DC – AARP today sent a letter to members of Congress and the President opposing the deficit proposal that would reduce Social Security benefits by adopting the Chained Consumer Price Index...
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Seniors Want Congress to Listen
AARP Survey: Seven in Ten Older Americans Don’t Want Changes to Social Security or Medicare During Lame Duck Nearly All Want Congress to Listen to Their Voices WASHINGTON, DC – In an AARP survey...
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Advocacy During the 2013 legislative session, Nevada AARP is working for you: to protect home and community based services; provide legal protections for family caregivers; support access to quality,...
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Volunteer ‘Posse’ Keeps an Eye on Legislature
A new posse is riding herd on the legislature. AARP Nevada is organizing dozens of volunteers to advocate for policies that help the 50-plus population as well as vulnerable people such as family...
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Legislative Report: Together we made a difference!
The voices of AARP Nevada members were heard loudly and clearly during the 77th session of the Nevada Legislature, which concluded in early June. A number of notable laws were passed or positively...
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Nevadans Have a Choice on Time-of-Use Rates
© Istockphoto/epantha In a win for people who spend daytime hours at home, Nevada is blocking utility companies from imposing higher rates during peak usage times. The law, which went into effect May...
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Use your power to make a difference for Nevada ratepayers! Join the Utility...
Are you wondering what the purchase of NV Energy by Warren Buffet’s MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company will mean for Nevadans? Do you want to know what the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) is doing...
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Help Get Out the Vote in 2014
© Istockphoto/Pamela Moore Voter turnout is often low in nonpresidential election years, but Nevada will have a lot at stake in 2014 contests for governor and other state and federal offices. The...
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Missing Something?
Without you, the picture is incomplete. To see more of the things that matter to you – from updates on AARP’s advocacy efforts to keeping Social Security and Medicare strong, as well as the latest...
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AARP Nevada and “watchdogs” help avert proposed Southwest Gas surcharge
In a victory for consumers across the state, AARP Nevada and hundreds of volunteers helped stop a recent proposal to bring a new surcharge to Southwest Gas customers. The Southwest Gas proposal for...
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Leadership Principles of Civil Rights Leaders Offer Guidelines for the Future
By Edna Kane-Williams, Vice President, Multicultural Markets and Engagement, AARP When AARP CEO A. Barry Rand and his wife met the revered South Africa President Nelson Mandela in 1994, the first thing...
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Civil Rights Leaders Tell Why They Stay in the Battle
By Edna Kane-Williams, Vice President, Multicultural Markets and Engagement, AARP The civil rights struggles of the 1940s, 50s and 60s were largely led by youth and college students, many who were...
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Social Media Could Make New Strides for Civil Rights
By Edna Kane-Williams, Vice President, Multicultural Markets and Engagement, AARP If the organizers of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom had used Facebook, Twitter, E-mail, Instagram...
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Civil Rights Leaders: Church Still Greatest Stabilizer in Black Community,...
By Edna Kane-Williams, Vice President, Multicultural Markets and Engagement, AARP From the tragic 1955 death of Emmett Till to the Montgomery bus boycott to civil rights battles of the 1960s and even...
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Survey: Older Nevadans strongly support bipartisan legislation to fight age...
Older Nevadans overwhelmingly support bipartisan legislation to combat age discrimination in the workplace, a new AARP survey shows. The poll conducted this month of registered voters 50 and older...
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Advocacy During the 2013 legislative session, Nevada AARP is working for you: to protect home and community based services; provide legal protections for family caregivers; support access to quality,...
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Volunteer ‘Posse’ Keeps an Eye on Legislature
A new posse is riding herd on the legislature. AARP Nevada is organizing dozens of volunteers to advocate for policies that help the 50-plus population as well as vulnerable people such as family...
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Las Vegas ranked 13th most dangerous in the nation for preventable pedestrian...
Las Vegas is among the most dangerous communities in the nation for pedestrians, ranking 13th most dangerous out of the 51 largest metro areas, a new report released by the National Complete Streets...
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Utility Watchdog Team Fights for Fair Rates
©Istockphoto/ZU_09 Anticipating that power utility NV Energy will propose rate changes this summer, AARP Nevada is recruiting volunteers to join its Utility Watchdogs team. Summer cooling costs are...
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