When Manuel Frazao climbed aboard his most recent cruise, the first thing he did was take off his shoes. But the New Britain, Conn., retiree wasn’t prepping for the pool or testing a new seasickness remedy. He just wanted to feel the grass between his toes.
It's illegal for employers to discriminate based on age. But age bias is widely acknowledged to be a key factor in job loss and hiring practices - something that should be painfully obvious to even a casual reader of newspapers, which routinely run articles about laid-off midlife workers.
Laurie Orlov grew up in the corporate high-tech world, working for 30 years as an information technology executive and later as an analyst for Forrester Research, the respected technology research company.
The federal subsidy of COBRA health insurance for laid-off workers contained in the economic stimulus bill has been generating a lot of reaction from readers - not all of it positive.
