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We Need to Fight Age Bias

Congress should act where the courts failed

by: Jack Gross, from: AARP Bulletin, September 1, 2010

I never, never imagined when I was demoted seven years ago and then filed an age discrimination suit that I would end up in the U.S. Supreme Court, that I would testify before five congressional committees, or that my name would become associated with the future of age discrimination laws in our country. I do believe, however, that it happened for a reason. … Back to Article

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