Capitol Hill Briefing: Meeting the Employment Needs of Unemployed Older Americans

Health Risks To Farmworkers Increase As Workforce Ages

by Sarah Varney, Kaiser Health News. That bag of frozen cauliflower sitting inside your freezer likely sprang to life in a vast field north of Salinas, Calif. A crew of men and women here use a machine to drop seedlings into the black soil. Another group follows...
Capitol Hill Briefing: Meeting the Employment Needs of Unemployed Older Americans

Aging Undocumented Day Laborers Face Uncertain Future

By Jacqueline García. Click here to read this article in Spanish. Every morning, Eduardo arrives at a day laborer center in Los Angeles to pick up his crew for the day. Depending on the working schedule, the 52-year-old man takes between two and four men to work in...
Capitol Hill Briefing: Meeting the Employment Needs of Unemployed Older Americans

How to Fix Racial Inequities in the Workplace

by Richard Eisenberg. This post originally appeared on Next Avenue. As Next Avenue has noted, there are huge wealth and income disparities between blacks and whites in America (average wealth of white families was more than $500,000 higher than African Americans in...
Capitol Hill Briefing: Meeting the Employment Needs of Unemployed Older Americans

Congressional Presentations with Older Workers!

Earlier this month, the National Asian Pacific Center on Aging (NAPCA) hosted two community listening sessions in San Francisco, CA and Seattle, WA for invited Congressional representatives, allowing Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) older workers in the...