More than 10 million people in the US are looking for a job right now, and people over the age of 45 cite one thing as their top obstacle to getting hired: their age, especially if they work in the high-tech or entertainment industries
Last year, the equal employment opportunity commission, or EEOC, received almost 21,000 complaints of age discrimination. So with racism, sexism, heterosexism, there also seems to be another one –ism that we’re not talking enough about.
Men and women over 50 are more than twice as likely as other workers to be unemployed for two years or longer if they lose their current job.
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