From MarketWatch:
The first challenge is to avoid getting discouraged. While antidiscrimination laws have gone a long way to reduce age-based layoffs, bias in hiring is difficult to root out, said David Neumark, a professor of economics and director of the Center for Economics & Public Policy at University of California at Irvine. “There’s enough evidence out there of discrimination that I certainly lean toward the view that it’s still a problem for older workers, particularly on the hiring side,” Neumark said.

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