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2014 AARP ANNUAL REPORT 7
SOCIAL IMPACT: JOBS AND WORK
>During AARP’s free online career fairs, participants talked with recruiters and
viewed approximately 11,000 job openings posted by employers such as AT&T,
the American Red Cross and the National Institutes of Health.
>Career discussion groups and personalized guidance, including a LinkedIn tool,
were available from Life Reimagined.
>To help people continue to be engaged in work, Life Reimagined also provided
online tools and Reimagine Work networking events. (See page 16 for more on
Life Reimagined, an affiliate of AARP.)
PROMOTING EXPERIENCED WORKERS
Scott Buell, 61, worked in the pharmaceutical industry for three
decades before he was laid off in 2009. Instead of retiring, he took a
bold step with help from AARP.
An avid bike rider, Buell was frustrated that
he could not read the tiny numbers on the
cyclometer that showed each ride’s time and
distance. So he and his son started a compa-
ny to develop sport sunglasses that incorpo-
rate reading lenses, but aren’t bifocals.
Buell was among the 160,000 aspiring
entrepreneurs whom AARP and the U.S.
Small Business Administration connected
with resources about starting, financing and
building a small business.
Separately, member benefits made avail-
able by AARP included business property
and business liability coverage tailored to
entrepreneurs.
On the advocacy front, AARP helped
ensure the earned benefits of Social Secu-
rity remain strong into the future for its 59
million beneficiaries by defeating “chained
CPI,” a harmful proposal to change the way
inflation adjustments are calculated for So-
cial Security and veterans’ benefits.
Photo by Andy McMillan/Redux
Scott Buell