Age Discrimination Under 40

Age Discrimination Under 40

When I was fifteen years old, I spent my summer working as an electrician apprentice. I wasn’t a fan of the work, but the $11.50/ hour seemed pretty great, especially when compared to my sixteen and seventeen year old peers who were flipping burgers for minimum wage, which was only $7.25/ hour in Michigan during…

Is ‘OK Boomer’ OK?

Is ‘OK Boomer’ OK?

“We have a saying in this movement that we don’t trust anyone over the age of 30,”  said environmental activist Jack Weinberg in 1964 during an interview with a reporter from the San Francisco Chronicle. This famous quote from the anti-establishment days of the 1960s eventually was memorialized simply as “don’t trust anyone over the…