AARP North Carolina: 1.1 Million Strong

Boomers who lost money in retirement funds and other investments are prime targets for scams. AARP, the North Carolina Secretary of State’s office and the Financial Investment Regulatory Authority are teaming together in an “Outsmarting Investment Fraud” campaign.

Protect Yourself From Investor Fraud
In this economic downturn, you may be trying to figure out how to regain some of the money lost on your retirement fund and other investments. Keep your guard up: Investment fraudsters are looking for their next victims. More >>

State Budget Cuts Hurting People From Coast to Coast
The most vulnerable groups—elderly, disabled and children—are hardest hit when 41 states make midyear budget cuts in health, education and state government workforces in 2009.  More >>

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Cindy DeLain, third from left, is the dean of nursing at College of the Sequoias in Visalia, Calif. Nursing students learn clinical skills by working on mannequins in the lab from instructor Bill Pagh. Photo by Justin Kase Conder

Not Enough Instructors to Train Nurses
If you wind up in the hospital today, you’ll see plenty of nurses. Looks are deceiving in this instance. “Because of the recession, some people are becoming complacent that there is not a nursing shortage,” said Brenda L. Cleary, a registered nurse and director of the Center to Champion Nursing in America, a collaboration of AARP, the AARP Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. More >>

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