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Tuesday, January 13, 2009   

Sioux Falls, SD - Beginning today (Tuesday), AARP ramps up a national effort to solve the healthcare and financial crises, with the next phase of its "Divided We Fail" campaign.

Sarah Jennings, state director of AARP South Dakota, explains in the past year, the campaign focused on raising awareness about the issues of affordable healthcare and financial security. Now, she says, it's time to start talking about solutions.

"The daily headlines are scary and the economy is affecting everyone, from folks in the workforce to retirees, near-retirees, and people in their 20s and 30s. This effort is really going to focus on getting our leaders, both in Pierre and in Washington, to take a hard look at the issues of healthcare and financial security, and try to figure out how we can make everyone's lives a little better."

Today, adds Jennings, the South Dakota congressional delegation will be presented with more than 2,500 pledges signed by "Divided We Fail" supporters around the state. In addition to AARP, she says, the coalition includes employers, such as the Business Roundtable, and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).

"People think those are sort-of strange bedfellows, because we have the business community on one hand and the labor community on another - and we represent the consumer, right here in the middle. I think that's just a testament to the reality that healthcare and financial security are issues everyone needs to be solved."

Jennings says the pledges should reinforce voters' wishes that policymakers come together with open minds and new ideas, because enacting such major reforms can only be done in a bipartisan manner. She says 360 members of the new Congress have signed the "Divided We Fail" pledge or written a letter of support for the campaign - including South Dakota's entire congressional delegation.



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