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Balancing Acts

Job market wasted on the young

In an aging society, mature workers still get passed over

By Maggie Jackson
July 27, 2008

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After shuttering his small Groton metal fabrication business in 2005, Gary Williams began looking for work. But he hunted for two years for a managerial post without success, and he thinks he knows why. He's 61. (Full article: 855 words)

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