Anuradha Koirala is fighting to prevent the trafficking and sexual exploitation of Nepal’s women and girls.”] Programming Note: CNN Heroes received more than ten thousand nominations from 100 countries. A Blue Ribbon Panel selected the Top 10 CNN Heroes for the year. Voting for the CNN Hero of the Year continues through November 18th (6am ET) at C … Read More
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Heroes
When you hear the cough of someone in New York caused by toxic dust from September 11, everyone knows it. These are the people that rushed to the scene to help any way they could, and because of their heroic actions, too many of them are now sick or even dying.
After political back-and-forth, we finally passed a bill in the House to pay for the healthcare these people need. Now we need the Senate to do the same thing. We have an obligation to step up for these Americans the way they stepped up for us.
I’m asking you to do one thing: sign my petition to put pressure on the Senate to pass our House bill quickly. We can’t let first responders go another day without the healthcare they deserve.
The House’s passage was a long-awaited first step towards getting heroic Americans the care and support they undeniably deserve. Now, we need to make sure it sees the light of day in the Senate.
We’ve seen the Senate become a final resting place for too many good bills recently, and we need to band together to make sure this bill becomes law.
After nearly a decade passed, the House did the right thing — but it’s not enough. We need the Senate to pass this crucial legislation to provide treatment to over 71,000 people exposed to dangerous toxins on the scene.
Thanks,
Anthony
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RE: The Choice
I need you to make a choice today — a choice to help finish what we started together.
Voters go to the polls just three weeks from today. If we let up now, we’ll wake up on Election Day wishing we did more to fight back against the tea party mob and their corporate special interest backers.
That’s why I am writing with a very specific ask today — to own a piece of this campaign. If you could give $28 today, it would cover a grassroots organizing kit for one volunteer, if you gave $35, it covers an actual radio ad in one of our too-close-to-call districts, and $144 covers the cost per point of television in another tough district for us.
We are in 75 make-or-break districts and with 8 more states starting early voting this week, we must raise an additional $500,000.
Please rush an urgent gift today before Friday’s deadline to wire money to campaigns.
Together, we can be the difference between victory and defeat on Election Day.
Onward to Victory,
Jon Vogel
DCCC Executive Director
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5 Steps to a Rich-Enough Retirement
By Comcast Finance
For What it’s Worth
Editor’s Note: This post by Jennie L. Phipps originally appeared on September 23 on WalletPop.com.
If you drive a car without knowing where you want to go, who knows where you’ll end up? The same thing applies to retirement. If you head out into the unexplored wilderness of later life with no plan, chances are you’ll find yourself in a place where you don’t want to be.
Money magazine offers 7 Steps to a Richer Retirement. It’s a little long, but if you’ve got lots of time, read it. If your schedule’s tight, take a quick look at these 5 Steps to a Rich-Enough Retirement, gleaned from folks who have good retirement road maps and concise advice.
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Step 1: Find something you love to do. 88-year-old Mort Walker, who has been creating the cartoon strip Beetle Bailey for the last 60 years, says cartooning is his passion and he has no reason to quit. Beetle can be read in 1,800 newspapers worldwide. Walker and three other people meet once a month to come up with ideas for the perpetual army private and his boss Sarge, then Walker takes the 30 best ideas, polishes them and turns them into cartoons. “You have to keep being creative,” he says. “How could I retire and stop giving people their daily cartoon fix?”
Step 2: Have a solid financial blueprint. Lee Eisenberg, former editor-in-chief of Esquire, and author of The Number, a best-selling book about retirement, says when it comes to figuring out a retirement financial plan, too many Baby Boomers suffer from “IDD – “inspiration deficit disorder.” So they are headed into retirement with no plan. “Unless they really want to spend the last days of their lives in government-run nursing homes, they should get off the dime and put some kind of plan in place,” he says
Step 3: Don’t quit earning money early. It costs too much. 114-year-old Walter Breuning of Great Falls, Mont., was certified by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s oldest living man on his birthday, Sept. 21. Breuning’s advice on retirement: “Stay working as long as you can and don’t retire too early because you’ll find out you need a little more money than what Social Security pays.”
Step 4: Stay healthy. Exercise guru Jack LaLanne, who will turn 96 on Sept. 26, has this to say about retirement: “When you slow down too much, you come to a stop. So many older people, they just sit around all day long and they don’t get any exercise. Their muscles atrophy, and they lose their strength, their energy and vitality by inactivity.”
Step 5: Have a good fallback plan. As 58-year-old country singer George Strait croons, “If you’re headed down a one-way street and you’re not sure it’s the way you wanna go; In money or love or all the above … you’ve got to have an ace in the hole.”
Do you have any retirement tips? Share them here.
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