Age and Sex Discrimination in Employment, and Review of Federal Response to Employment Needs of the Elderly: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Retirement Income and Employment of the Select Committee on Aging, House of Representatives, Ninety-fourth Congress, First Session, December 10, 1975U.S. Government Printing Office, 1976 - 66 pages |
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Page 43 - No person in the United States shall on the ground of race, color, national origin, or sex be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity funded in whole or in part with funds made available under this title.
Page 3 - Commission on Civil Rights is an independent, bipartisan, factfinding agency established by Congress under the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
Page 8 - If this were done, the husband or widower should be assumed to be eligible for dependents' benefits unless his own social security benefit as a worker was higher than his benefit as a husband or a widower. This recommendation was...
Page 43 - That special consideration in filling workfare jobs will be given to unemployed persons who are the most severely disadvantaged in terms of the length of time they have been unemployed and their prospects for finding employment without assistance.
Page 6 - A Matter of Simple Justice." The Report of the President's Task Force on Women's Rights and Responsibilities. April 1970, p.
Page 7 - USC §402 (g), that grant survivors' benefits based on the earnings of a deceased husband and father covered by the Act both to his widow and to the couple's minor children in her care, but that...
Page 5 - The income security programs of this Nation were designed for a land of male and female stereotypes, a land where all men were breadwinners and all women were wives and widows: where men provided necessary income for their families but women did not: in other words; where all the men supported all the women. This view of the world never matched reality, but today it is further than ever from the truth.
Page 43 - II (sees. 205 (c) (7) and 210). § 96.29 Serving significant segments of the population. (a) The significant segments of an eligible applicant's population shall be served on an equitable basis. For example, individuals from each significant segment could be placed in programs under Title...
Page 42 - I- -Steps to End Age Discrimination We now have legislation designed to eliminate discrimination in employment on account of age. But there is question as to whether this legislation is vigorously enforced and as to whether 'further efforts are needed to expand employment opportunities for older workers.
Page 42 - Federal, State and local governments should strictly enforce protective and anti-discriminatory laws and policies regarding employment opportunities, with the elimination of the age limit of 65 in age discrimination legislation. The age discrimination act of 1967 should be expanded to cover all employees in both private and public sectors. There should be a government ally sponsored public relations and educational effort designed to induce employers voluntarily to hire more older workers...