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With the November general election just over two months away, AARP New Mexico is launching a comprehensive voter campaign to ensure that people age 50 plus can vote safely -- starting with this special teletown hall featuring Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver

AARP is fighting to protect vulnerable seniors in nursing homes, assisted living, and other long-term care facilities from sickness, isolation, and neglect during the COVID-19 pandemic.

AARP Maryland and the Montgomery County Age-Friendly Work Group on Employment are congratulating six Maryland-based organizations for recognizing the contributions and assets that workers 50+ bring to a multi generational workforce.

Resources for updates, home health visits, food banks, grocery access and meal delivery.

Three Maryland organizations will receive 2020 Community Challenge grants – part of the largest number of grantees to date with more than $2.4 million awarded among 184 organizations nationwide.

“The Hire Our Veterans Act of 2017" created the Hire Our Veterans Tax Credit Program for employers. This underutilized program enables Maryland employers who qualify to receive an income tax credit equal to 30% of up to the first $6,000 of wages paid to a qualified Veteran employee during the first year of employment.

A guide to local food resources in Baltimore, including grocery store hours, delivery services and Meals on Wheels.

AARP has called for enactment of a bipartisan five-point plan to protect nursing home residents and staff by providing adequate PPE and regular testing, creating more transparency, requiring access for virtual visitation, improving staffing and oversight, and stopping attempts to provide blanket immunity for long-term care facilities who fail to protect residents and staff.

Chicago, Ill.—Today, AARP announced that four Illinois organizations will receive 2020 Community Challenge grants – part of the largest number of grantees to date with more than $2.4 million awarded among 184 organizations nationwide. Grantees will implement “quick-action” projects to create more livable communities across all 50 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

The plan includes increased scrutiny of utility spending, in light of ComEd scandal