Yes many dividend aristocrats have taken a fall in this economic turmoil. I think it says a lot about a company that still can pay the same or increasing dividends without adding debt to fund these payouts.

Waste management discussion

http://seekingalpha.com/article/163833-waste-management-s-rising-dividends?source=email 

Here are some ideas for dividend stocks in the S&P 500. The slides reload the whole page so it is a little slower than it needs to be. Windstream just bought Iowa Telecom.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/33306749?slide=1 

Here are some ideas listed from Seeking Alpha about what BI investors are doing

http://seekingalpha.com/article/179079-ten-top-companies-attracting-interest-from-betterinvesting-members?source=yahoo 

For those of us who don't have a job...by choice

http://www.cnbc.com//id/35520494 

When execs get their bonuses Wall Street doesn't decry the dilution that takes place. When shareowners get their quarterly "bonus" however the same people claim it is taking away from the company. If the thought that a company's price drops when dividends are paid out, the stock would drop four times a year every year. This has not been the case for the dividend payers with a good history of running a good ship. See the attached table

http://seekingalpha.com/article/201688-do-dividend-payouts-reduce-share-prices?source=yahoo

Correct Jim, the price adjusts but the price of any stock "adjusts" from day to day. Most dividend payers trend up over a long period of time, which is of more interest to us.

Here are some investing ideas for dividends. Beware of the MLP's and LP's as they have more complex dividend reporting rules. I've read clubs definitely don't want these and I as an individual don't want to be refiling because of late or recharacterzation of reported dividends.

http://seekingalpha.com/article/217990-12-high-yield-stocks-raising-dividends?source=email

Well stated article (IMO)

http://seekingalpha.com/article/227586-another-reason-for-companies-to-pay-dividends?source=yahoo