Our friend from Gray Matters Joan Freeman informs us about another biased opinion on older workers, unfortunately this time from the media: "20/20 – the In Touch Show with John Stossel approved & aired by ABC, implies that younger people can do everything better  & characterize older workers as mentally & physically slow, out of touch , technical illiterates unwilling to put in a full days work.

Texas Roadhouse Restaurants Accused Of Widespread Age Discrimination By EEOC.  

"It is fundamentally wrong to give people money for 99 weeks for doing nothing," he said.

Most studies of unemployment insurance have showed that lethargy is not a side effect of providing help to the unemployed. The money that is being distributed simply doesn't cover the salary lost from not having a job.

The more cynical minded would argue that Gingrich's condemnation of welfare insurance resembles the type of class warfare that Republicans are often deriding... only in reverse."

The preceding was from Sam Stein of the Huffington Post.  To both we say "Thanks!"

This large Chicago-based outplacement firm is spreading their bias across this nation:

http://www.challengergray.com/press/PressRelease.aspx?PressUid=170

April 21, 2011
Annual College Grad Job Outlook: ENTRY-LEVEL MARKET BEST IN THREE YEARS,
BUT STILL FIERCELY COMPETITIVE

“In this hiring environment, recent graduates have two distinct
advantages. First, they presumably have the basic skills necessary to
succeed in the workplace, but, as far as the employer is concerned, they are
blank slates. This is a good thing for an employer that wants the ability to
mold its next generation of workers, as opposed to re-shaping someone who
came from another employer with ingrained work habits, skills, and
knowledge that may not fit with the company’s culture or approach to
business,” said (John) Challenger.

"Secondly, recent college graduates are extremely flexible in terms of
where they work and when they work. They are not tied down by an
underwater mortgage or a family, so they can go wherever the company
needs them to go. And, because many don’t have the family commitments
that many 30-something and older workers do, they are more willing to work
longer and/or non-traditional hours,” he noted.

Concerning the fair consideration of applications from native job seekers, an article in the 6/09/2011 Washington Post, "Report documents dramatic shift in immigrant workforce’s skill level" http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/report-documents-dramatic-shift-in-immigrant-workforces-skill-level/2011/06/08/AGHqthMH_story_1.html quotes a person from a "Northern-Virginia-based IT business":

"Some employers may say they prefer immigrants to native-born workers. When Samir Kumar needs to hire employees for his Northern Virginia-based IT business, he often looks overseas. Not only do workers from India and Ukraine have the required training, but their expectations are lower, he said.

“They actually don’t demand a very high amount of salary, and the expectations are kind of grounded and they don’t jump around so much” between companies, said the 39-year-old Ashburn resident, an immigrant from India. U.S.-born technology and business analysts are hard to find and hard to retain, he said, while immigrants with the same skills and education “are much easier to manage.”

Many of us native born an educated have been without jobs since 2009 or earlier. Ask us if we'd take a lower salary. After the economy recovers, see if your loyal immigrant employees jump ship to a higher-paying job. Welcome to America.