Job Problems in Middle Age

Archive Report

Growing Concern Over Age Discrimination

Job hunting difficulties commonly experienced today by persons in the middle age brackets point up a paradox of the times. Every year the relative number of persons 45 years of age or older in the United States is increasing, and there is consequent demand for a rising proportion of job openings for such workers. General prosperity and an expanding- economy might be expected to provide the needed employment opportunities. Yet middle aged persons, forced for one reason or another to look for new jobs, are all too apt to run up against an age barrier. Individuals with special qualifications, and well short of retirement age, seem to have almost as hard a time of it as persons not as favorably ...

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