Tag: employment

Art of people at a job interview

As laid-off baby boomers venture into the job market in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, they may sense it will be tough to find a position because, well, they’re too old. New research indicates this suspicion is spot-on. Discrimination is notoriously difficult to corroborate in academic studies. But researchers in Belgium, using a well-designed…

United States Capitol in Washington DC

Maintaining the continuity of employment should be a major goal.  Before I say anything, let me be clear about my view of the world.  At the end of 2019, according to the Federal Reserve, households held $127 trillion in assets and $16 trillion in debt, for a net worth of $111 trillion.  Of course, that…