Over 50 and Furloughed/Unemployed? Five Actions to Consider Now
Age discrimination exists. It is an unfortunate fact, held up by statistics.
In 2014, the AARP Public Policy Institute's Future of Work@50 sponsored a survey that examined how Americans over 50 had fared since the Great Recession. The resulting study, The Long Road Back: Struggling to Find Work after Unemploymentthe found that re-employed men ages 50 to 61 received a median hourly wage that was 20% less than they had received previously, while men over 62 took a 36% salary cut.
