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Test politicians, and surgeons, for competency. That’s better than age limits.
A law requiring mandatory physical and mental testing of the president and members of Congress past a certain age would not be age discrimination, per se. By Greg Ganske, MD On October 30, 2023 In March 1995, I sat in the House of Representatives listening to 70-year-old Rep. Henry Hyde, an Illinois Republican, give a…
Why Would A 20- Or 30-Year-Old Care About Ageism? The Answer Seems Obvious–But It’s Not
By Sheila Callaham On October 8, 2023 Why would a 20- or 30-year-old care about ageism? The answer seems obvious–simple, even–but it’s not. So what’s the answer? If people continue to overlook age bias, stereotyping and discrimination, then every younger person risks aging into it. Ageism affects our health and longevity by as many as 7.5 years.…
Ontario’s 2-tier minimum wage: As discriminatory now as it was in the 1990s
by Steven High, Professor of History, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS), Concordia University October 10, 2023 Thirty years later, young people in Ontario are still paying the price: 95 cents an hour, to be precise. The province of Ontario has increased its minimum wage to $16.55 per hour — unless workers are students under the…
Eli Lilly to Pay $2.4 Million to Settle Age-Discrimination Suit — Update
By Will Feuer On October 12, 2023 Eli Lilly has agreed to pay $2.4 million to settle an age-discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Lilly denied positions to pharmaceutical sales representative applicants due to the company’s “Early Career” hiring initiative, the EEOC’s lawsuit alleged. The initiative, which was in place from…
Social media disinformation spreads amid war in Israel
By Jo Ling Kent and Kerry Breen On October 14, 2023 As the war in Israel and Gaza plays out in real time on social media, experts say bad information and propaganda are spreading on X, formerly known as Twitter. Alethea, a research group, said that they had detected a network of at least 67 accounts on the…
Federal judge rules Galveston County commissioner maps violate Voting Rights Act
Judge Jeffrey V. Brown, a Trump appointee, found the county districts denied Black and Latino voters “the equal opportunity to participate in the political process.” By Caroline Wilburn On October 13, 2023 A U.S. District Judge ruled Friday that Galveston County violated the federal Voting Rights Act in 2021 when it drew new districts for…
AP Exclusive: America’s Black attorneys general discuss race, politics and the justice system
By Matt Brown On December 1, 2023 BOSTON (AP) — The American legal system is facing a crisis of trust in communities around the country, with people of all races and across the political spectrum. For many, recent protests against police brutality called attention to longstanding discrepancies in the administration of justice. For others, criticism of perceived conflicts of…
Majority of Flint residents support reparations for Black Americans, CRJ survey shows
By Lauren Slagter On November 7, 2023 More than half of Flint residents favor reparations for Black Americans, although levels of support vary depending on whether the proposal refers to reparations as a broad concept or specific reparative policies like cash payments or financial support for housing and education. A new report from the University…
The Critical Need to Teach the History of Mass Incarceration
By Benjamin Weber On November 20, 2023 Beneath the bluster over what’s taught in schools is a struggle over the future of justice itself. Pressure to remove topics like mass incarceration from school curricula in places like Florida and from the College Board’s Advanced Placement (AP) African American History course reveals precisely why we must continue teaching it. Those…