By TRUDY LIEBERMAN, Rural Health News Service
Not long ago, the news site, ProPublica, published an important story about employers who, in their quest for a younger and cheaper workforce, were pushing out “older” workers – often those in their early 50s. Crunching data from the Urban Institute, reporters found that 28 percent of stable, long-time employees sustain at least one damaging layoff between turning 50 and leaving the workforce for retirement.