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Workforce » Older Worker Policies

Why It's Important

Many older adults have to work out of financial necessity. Supportive policies, job training and employment services can help ensure that older adults have the opportunity to participate in the workforce. Congress has declared that older people are entitled to equal opportunity for employment with no discriminatory personnel practices because of age. Congress has also declared that older people are entitled to equal access to education and training. Overt and subtle forms of age discrimination have a powerful effect on cutting short the productive years of older adults.

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Respondents to the AARP 2007 Work and Career Study said they believe age discrimination exists in the working world. Six in ten (60%) believe that age discrimination exists in the workplace, and 13 percent say they have personally experienced such discrimination in the past five years. (AARP, WORK AND CAREER STUDY, 2007)