As of this writing, unemployment has just hit a new low.27 But age discrimination is real: A recent New York Times–Pro Publica investigation found that Facebook job ads were not showing up on the pages of people over a certain age, because the site let potential employees target younger demographics for their ads. When Verizon sought recruits for a financial planning and analysis unit, the ad went out to people ages twenty-five to thirty-six.28 Older users never saw it.
