Our nation’s labor force is increasingly dependent on older workers, who will soon represent one-quarter of our labor force. Yet after the last recession, older job seekers had only a 40% chance of finding a job within 18 months. In the third episode of CWI Labs’ Equitable Recovery Series, Ruth Finkelstein and Ramona Schindelheim, editor-in-chief at WorkingNation, discussed how COVID-19 fears and misinformation complicate efforts to include older workers in our recovery, and what employers and policy makers can do to overcome these challenges.
