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Americans 55 and older are suddenly losing jobs at the fastest pace in 4 years
- sean234 8y agoFrom the article: “This data tends to be volatile monthly. I don’t think it’s a start of a trend,” said Craig Dismuke, chief economist at Vining Sparks. “Broadly speaking, I think the labor market has been very good for people over the age of 55 and 65.”
- throwawaymanbot 8y agoNot in good paying jobs..
- sssuicide 8y agoAnd committing suicide.
- olliej 8y agoFrom the article it’s a small sample size from the group with the lowest unemployment rate. It also doesn’t include comparisons to other age groups, so while the article is clearly intending to say “older people are being unfairly fired” they aren’t explicitly stating that. The cynic in me is dubious that the failure to include comparisons was unintentional - if the comparative numbers showed drastically worse rates for 55+ than for other groups I would fully expect those numbers to be present.
- bob_theslob646 8y agoI'm surprised that LinkedIn can't do a study on this because they probably have the best data, even better than the government, if and only if, people actually update their profiles.
- rightbyte 8y agoEhm ... Linked in has better data that the tax office?
- throwawaymanbot 8y agoRemember that older Computer guy who was looking for eomployment on facebook jobs, and the day after he turned 50, he found that a whole lot of jobs were no longer showing to him. (I think he sued facebook for age discrimination, but don't quote me on that) We know it goes on, why pretend otherwise.