In January 2011, Kaiser Health News reported that the total compensation of Barry Rand, AARP's CEO, was $648,640.
As for his predesscor, Bill Novelli, who left AARP in 2009, his haul "included a base salary of $345,243; a $1.2 million payment that included deferred compensation from his 8-year tenure at AARP and severance of $350,657; $35,362 in retirement and deferred compensation and $4,209 in nontaxable benefits."
We're talking some real one-percenters here, folks.
Back to the internship. From AARP Illinois' Facebook page:
Depending on your interests, we would love to use your skills to help us monitor and improve our engagement on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, and Twitter – maybe even assist us with a Pinterest board or two.From the national AARP's Facebook page:
We'd also love your help with press conferences, making calls to media, taking video and photo at events, writing press releases, interviewing people with stories to share, or doing the research for online articles.
The AARP Foundation's website says the nonprofit "wants to win back opportunity for those now in crisis, so thousands of vulnerable low-income Americans 50+ can regain their foothold, continue to serve as anchors for their families and communities and ensure that their best life is still within reach." Key areas of focus are hunger, income, housing and isolation. The Foundation's vision is "a country that is free of poverty where no older person feels vulnerable."Back to the AARP Illinois Facebook announcement:
Applicant should be an undergraduate student pursuing communications, digital strategy, computer science, social media, public relations or journalism. [This sentence appears to be missing a direct object.] In most cases, student should have completed at least their sophomore year.Whoah. While there are a few 50-plussers who may be pursuing an undergraduate degree, I mean, it's got to be a few. Nationwide, I wager that you couldn't fit all of them in a minor league baseball stadium. Oh, I'm not referring to older people attending a community college to learn PhotoShop, but to reiterate, I'm talking about degree-track AARP membership-age students. Of course many 50-plussers already have a college degree.
If AARP Illinois really seeks to "win back opportunity for those now in crisis, so thousands of vulnerable low-income Americans 50+ can regain their foothold," perhaps they should look for candidates on the AARP job board and offer a qualified person a paid position.
The internship requires "a minimum 10-12 hours a week." If that job was a paid position it would of course not be a full-time gig, but it could instead be turned into a contract position.
Then there is this:
Older workers who lost their jobs spent a lot more time looking for work than any other age group. Nearly half of the unemployed ages 25-34 found a new job within six months, and those 35-49 within seven months. But it took more than nine months for those 50-61 to find work.
The hypocrites need to put their money--and they have a lot of it--where their mouth is.
As I stated in my criticism of another left-wing group offering an unpaid internship, the Sierra Club, I hope that no one applies for the AARP internship. Then they'll be forced to find their wallet.
Finally, one of the drags on the economy is the full-blown rollout of ObamaCare in 2014--unless of course it is repealed. AARP favored passage of ObamaCare and it stands to make more than $1 billion from selling insurance policies because of it, a House Ways and Means Committee report discovered in 2011.
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