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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Why employers should (and have to) hire older workers  Yahoo Finance Source link

Layoffs have been all over the news. More than 150 tech companies alone have said farewell to nearly 40,000 employees, per layoffs.fyi. It’s bad, of course, to be one of those heading out the door. It may be especially hard if you are a highly educated worker, between ages 40 and 65, who has been out of work for more than six months. According to Ofer Sharone, associate professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the deck is stacked against the most experienced job… Source link