https://www.freep.com/story/sports/colum...325626001/
Mitch is always an easy entertaining read ("Tuesdays with Morrie").
Takes on ageism after Castro's comments in the Democratic debates. The closest we every came to nuclear war was with the relatively young JFK. I think his relative inexperience is what nearly brought the world to disaster.
"...This should be a big issue for any presidential candidate. But do you ever hear it brought up? Virtually every form of discrimination is hashed and rehashed on the campaign trail. Yet with more than a third of our population over 50 — a third! — nobody seems to make this a topic.
A recent AARP study showed that nearly two out of three workers 45 and older have experienced age discrimination on the job. Another study of 2,000 workers over 50 showed that more than half were forced to leave their jobs at some point due to "layoffs, businesses closing, job dissatisfaction or unexpected retirement." Of these, only 10% found another job of equal pay or rank....
So ageism can come from senior citizens as well. It’s built into our culture. For the life of me, I don’t know why this isn’t a bigger issue — among candidates and society in general — considering the enormous attention we give to other forms of discrimination.
After all, we will never be a single race or gender.
But all of us, if we’re lucky, will one day be old."