Jobs program for elderly on chopping block (Sarasota Herald-Tribune)
The Department of Labor wants to slash $133 million from a program for low-income, older Americans who often want and need to work.

Though only 33, new chief advocates for retirees (St. Petersburg Times)
Lori Parham, 33, has recently replaced Bentley Lipscomb, 70, as state director of Florida AARP, the second largest state chapter of this influential senior lobby, with 2.8-million members.

91% of Pennsylvania Residents Want Medicare to Have Power to Bargain for Lower Drug Prices (U.S. Newswire via Yahoo! News)
AARP members from across Pennsylvania are meeting with U.S. Senators Arlen Specter and Robert P. Casey, Jr. to urge them to support legislation that would allow the Secretary of Health and Human Services to bargain for lower Medicare drug prices. Earlier this year, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 4, the "Medicare Prescription Drug Price Negotiation Act of 2007" by a bipartisan vote ...