title: The federal law of age discrimination in the U.S.A.
abstract: The American workforce and society as a whole is aging, and age-based decisions and policies are increasingly under attack as violative of a civil right. At the federal level, the response has been to deal with discrete problems as they arise by separate pieces of legislation: of age bias in the administration of programs receiving federal funds; of age bias in employment; and of decisions based upon the reduction of benefit costs that impact with special harshness on older workers. The author supplies a very brief and simplified overview of the relevant federal law in the U.S.A.
authors.affiliation: College of Law, University of Illinois.
authors.forename: M W
authors.initials: MW
authors.lastname: Finkin
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D004185:Disability Evaluation; D004608:Eligibility Determination / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D004651:Employment; D006806:Human Rights / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006801:Humans; D012943:Social Security / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D014481:United States