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Federal and state laws should prohibit maximum hiring ages and mandatory retirement ages for all workers. This should include public-safety employees.

Businesses that bid on federal, state, and local contracts should be required to report any complaints and determinations of unlawful and unfair practices.

Policymakers should enact and strictly enforce antidiscrimination and civil rights laws.

States should coordinate mental health services among all appropriate health, LTSS, and aging-network services.

States should coordinate LTSS programs, policies, and budgets. This can be done in one state agency or across multiple agencies.

States should develop a comprehensive uniform assessment instrument to determine individual needs and develop a service plan. It should be used in all state LTSS programs. 

Congress should make pre-dispute mandatory arbitration provisions in LTSS contracts unenforceable. 

States should ensure that facility-specific survey results and other information regarding quality are made available to the public in a timely manner.

Governments should avoid enacting laws that are inconsistent with U.S. Supreme Court precedent on takings.

Congress should mandate the use of the Supplemental Poverty Meas