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Gene Dodaro

Gene Dodaro is Acting Comptroller General, in the Government Accounting Office. Throughout his 30-year career with GAO, Mr. Dodaro oversaw the development of hundreds of reports and testimonies delivered to Congress annually.

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Debra Katz

As a founding partner of Katz, Marshall & Banks, LLP, Debra Katz has spent the past 20 years working on employment discrimination, civil rights and whistleblower protection cases.

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Mark Sherman

Mark Sherman covers the Supreme Court for The Associated Press. In more than 20 years as a journalist, Sherman has reported on all levels of government.

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Deborah Russell

Deborah Russell is the Director of Workforce Issues at AARP. Ms. Russell works with the business community to help develop employment opportunities that are fair, flexible, and that capitalize on the wealth of knowledge and expertise mature workers bring to today’s workplace. She has also established the Best Employers for Workers Over 50 program, which recognizes companies that demonstrate exemplary policies and practices for the 50+ workforce.

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John E. Nelson

John Nelson is an independent retirement planning researcher and co-author of the book, “What Color is Your Parachute? For Retirement.”  Mr. Nelson also developed the Well-Being Model – a comprehensive method for retirement preparation. The model has been adopted by the federal government, and by the AARP to structure its in-house employee education programs.

Resources

Age Discrimination:

Fighting Ageism, Through the Ages (AARP The Magazine)

Understand your worker rights at the Workplace Fairness website, a non-profit organization helping all workers better understand and advocate for their workplace rights.

What You Can Do About Age Bias (AARP website)

Workforce Online Tools

Job Tips for 50+ Workers: Find out how to refresh your résumé and improve your interviewing skills. (AARP)

Help for Laid Off Workers: Learn which resources and programs can help those out of work. Information includes tips on resumes, cover letters, interviewing, job search strategies, starting your own business, and more. (AARP)
 
AARP National Employer Team: View a AARP’s team of employers who value older workers.

RetirementJobs.com: This site is dedicated to helping active, productive and conscientious mature adults find a job that matches their lifestyle and experience.

Additional links

  • GAO’s Testimony Before the Senate Special Committee on Aging (download pdf document and read with free Adobe Acrobat)
  • Engaging and Retaining Older Workers - GAO Forum  (download pdf document and read with free Adobe Acrobat)

Inside E Street Archives

Protecting Workers 40+

Workers aged 40 and over are finding that retirement might not happen as soon as they predicted.  Not only that, it might be harder to keep the job they have or find the one they want because of the economic downturn.

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Older Workers and the Coming " Brain Drain"

Gene Dodaro, acting U.S. Comptroller General, discusses how employer flexibility will be needed to offset problems accompanying the retirement of many baby boomers.  He suggests what employers can do to hold on to older workers.

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Age Discrimination and the Courts

Associated Press reporter Mark Sherman and employment attorney Debra Katz look at recent Supreme Court cases involving age discrimination in the workplace. We ask young people how they view older workers.

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Why Some Companies Love Workers Over 50

AARP’s Deborah Russell joins us to talk about the current job climate for workers in their forties and older, and she singles out companies that go the extra mile. She explains why some companies and industries love older workers.

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Putting Your Best Foot Forward

John Nelson, co-author of  “What Color Is Your Parachute?  For Retirement” and AARP's Deborah Russell provide some job hunting wisdom for older workers.

Sheila

The Host

Through most of her distinguished reporting career, Sheilah Kast has focused on the economy and workplace and how they affect people's lives. Well known to viewers of public television, ABC News, and CNN, she has covered the White House and Congress.

Kast also reported on the Washington aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks. Her stories included an investigation of anthrax in the mails and the struggles of bereaved Pentagon families to secure benefits.

At The Washington Star, in her first reporting job, Kast covered financial regulation, taxes, and energy. Her expertise in these important issues eventually led her to start a national public-television show, "This Week in Business," which she hosted in association with Business Week magazine.

Ms. Kast is a skilled interviewer. She has often hosted NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday and has her own current-affairs interview show on public radio in Maryland.

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