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AARP Arkansas shares some helpful resources from AARP as well as community partners in our state. Items range from elder fraud to broadband. Learn more in this post.
Kick off our 2025 Listening Sessions in Wrightsville (and surrounding cities) and Elaine. Community members are encouraged to share thoughts on transportation, housing, and more.
AARP Arkansas' Portal Champions offer Trainings
Thinking of becoming a volunteer or returning to AARP Arkansas? Stop by one of our events and learn more.
H.C. "Hank" Klein of Sherwood, a longtime AARP Arkansas volunteer leader, played a key role in removing predatory payday lending from Arkansas in 2009. Klein's expertise, passion and persistence during the legislative session that recessed April 3 of this year helped stop predatory lenders from regaining a foothold in our state.
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If you are interested in AARP’s work in Arkansas—promoting health, improving retirement security, easing the burden on family caregivers, preventing fraud and making communities more livable—why not play an active role in these efforts?
The Schmieding Home Caregiver Training Program of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) will hold a free family caregiver workshop Thursday, April 6 for those who would like to learn about caring for an adult with dementia or Alzheimer’s disease.
A U.S. House of Representatives vote on the American Health Care Act is expected to occur on Thursday, March 23, 2017. AARP will publish a list of how every member of Congress voted on the health care bill. AARP's John Hishta explains:
Warren Searls, AARP Arkansas Lead Volunteer for Advocacy and Executive Council member, in this video explains that while the Arkansas Constitution "caps" interest on consumer loans at 17 percent Annual Percentage Rate (APR), an out-of-state lender is using a loophole to charge up to 280 percent APR! Senate Bill 658, which has passed the Arkansas Senate and is pending in the state House of Representatives, will seal shut this phantom loophole. AARP Arkansas strongly supports SB658—because less than eight years after payday lenders left Arkansas, we can't afford to let predatory lenders regain a foothold in our state.
Select AARP members and their guests are invited to a free screening of Jackie, starring Natalie Portman as iconic First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy and Peter Sarsgaard as Robert Kennedy, brother of the assassinated President John F. Kennedy. Screenings will be held in Fayetteville on Tuesday, March 21 and in Little Rock the following Sunday, March 26.
The Schmieding Home Caregiver Training Program of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) will hold a free family caregiver workshop Thursday, March 30 for those who would like to learn about caring for an adult with dementia or Alzheimer’s disease.
An estimated 530,000 Arkansans—over half of Arkansans age 18 to 64—do not have access to a retirement savings plan through their employer. Senate Bill 236, which passed the Arkansas Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee today, would help address this issue by creating the Arkansas Small Business Voluntary Retirement Program.
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