New Evidence of Age Bias in Hiring, and a Push to Fight It

As the unemployment rate has tunneled its way to a half-century low, employers insist they must scramble to lure applicants. Tens of thousands of workers say that even with the right qualifications for a job, they are repeatedly turned away because they are over 50, or even 40, and considered too old. But as cases make their way to court, the legal road for proving age discrimination, always difficult, has only roughened.

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