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Policymakers should strengthen regulations to prohibit inquiries about age and date of birth in job applications.

Policymakers should protect the rights of older workers and workers with disabilities to receive fair and nondiscriminatory benefits.

Deficit-reduction efforts should avoid cuts in programs that serve low- and moderate-income populations.

Policymakers should use regulatory and legislative measures to prohibit discrimination against the following groups of workers:

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

The Equal Employment Opportunities Commission (EEOC) must vigorously enforce antidiscrimination laws on behalf of state employees.

Federal and state policymakers should work to eliminate barriers to self-employment.

Congress, federal policymakers, and the states should require workforce development centers to provide in-person counseling, accurate guidance about job search strategies, a

Policymakers should improve policies and programs intended to help workers who are displaced as the result of offshoring, automation, outsourcing, and other major acti

Congress and the states should provide sufficient funding for the workforce development system.