Study using fake resumes shows widespread age discrimination

Study using fake resumes shows widespread age discrimination
- February 27, 2017
- David Neumark, economics, San Francisco Chronicle, Feb. 27, 2017
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Policy efforts to improve the system’s solvency have focused on encouraging seniors to work longer by changing Social Security benefits, such as by reducing benefits for those who start claiming them at age 62. David Neumark, an economics professor at the University of California, Irvine, [said]: “If they work longer, they pay more Social Security taxes.”
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