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Extending Life Expectancy: How Long Is Too Long?
By Eleanor Clift - Politics DailyBy 2050, the United States will look like Florida, with more old people taking advantage of senior-citizen discounts and enjoying early-bird suppers. The population is aging, and as the politicians debate raising the retirement age, the data confirm the belief embraced by baby boomers that 50 is the new 40, and 60 the new 50. That's because people in midlife today can expect to live many more years than their counterparts in the early part of the last century, although the term "midlife" tends to be generously applied to people past the halfway mark on actuarial tables. The generation whose ...
Opinion: Here's a Way to Drive More Donations to Charity
By not in system - AOL News(Nov. 8) -- Among the many casualties of the Great Recession are charitable groups. Last year, for example, donations dropped 11 percent, the largest drop in 20 years, according to the Chronicle of Philanthropy. But as in other areas, this adversity presents an opportunity to create new, more innovative and better ways to encourage sustained giving to charitable causes. I propose a new idea that appears untested: "angel lanes." The idea is simple: Commuters who ride the subway or travel along toll roads with electronic payment systems (like the East Coast EZ Pass) would be given the ...
Opinion: Impoverishing Democracy
By not in system - AOL News(July 22) -- Thomas Jefferson once observed, "Information is the currency of democracy." That's never been more true than it is today. We live, after all, in an information age, one that's seen a virtual explosion in new sources of information -- ranging from newspapers and TV to talk radio, cable news, millions upon millions of blogs, even billboards. Today, particularly on the Web, openness is supposed to be the watchword when it comes to communication. But, oddly enough, rules that govern much of our information currency are being written by regulatory agencies and lawmakers in closed ...
George Mitchell Lays Groundwork as Envoy for Israeli-Palestinian Talks
By Sarah Wildman - Politics DailyIf there were no conflict, Ramallah and Jerusalem would be considered neighboring towns. By car, they lie only 16 miles apart; even fewer as the crow flies. The distance might as well be an ocean. Former Sen. George Mitchell must be tired. He's swum this ocean's length already, dozens of times. Over the last weeks Mitchell, the U.S. special envoy to the Middle East, a diplomat decorated for his role in the Northern Ireland peace process, has shuttled back and forth between Jerusalem and Ramallah, working to lay the groundwork allowing mediated talks to begin between Israeli Prime ...
Obama's Nuclear Moves: Good for America, Bad for Democrats?
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyPresident Obama is setting new priorities and new directions for the country as he tries to curb nuclear proliferation and prevent nuclear terrorism. What could be bad, right? He's following in the tradition of Ronald Reagan. Yet there is the depressing possibility that Obama's efforts to make the world a safer place could feed doubts about whether he and his party are macho enough to protect the country. The promise and the peril were summed up in an exchange on Politics Daily's Facebook page. "I trust our president to work for peace," wrote Erica Kirchner-Dean. Retorted Grant Miller, no fan ...
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