Katie Hood

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592 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 9 Sep

Katie Hood’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Planet Money · Older workers aren’t retiring. Should they be forced to? · 7 Aug 2026 podcast

Like on their birthday? matched

And really? matched

And you knew when you got in. matched

Yeah. matched

People knew when they took the job what their last day was going to be. matched

And everyone could plan around that. matched

Even when Congress passed the Age Discrimination in Employment Act in nineteen sixty-seven, employers were still allowed to force people to retire at age sixty-five. matched

But after lobbying from the ARP and pushback from seniors who were like, Hey, we're living longer now. matched

Why are we getting kicked out of work when we still have so much life to live? matched

The law was revised. matched

They said you couldn't kick anyone out until they hit age 70. matched

Then the law was revised again in 1986 when it became largely illegal to force anyone to retire because of age. matched

Though Congress did make a temporary exemption for universities, because universities, academics, they were strongly warning against the consequences of eliminating mandatory retirement, saying it would be bad for business. matched

Bad for innovation, bad for research, like this former Chicago school provost who went on to be Stanford University president. matched

What did he say? matched

Oh yeah, you're shaking your head like you're like of course they're what do you mean? matched

Milton Friedman, famous economist. matched

won the Nobel Prize in Economics the year that he was forced to mandatorily retire from his university. matched

Now, Sam has been accused of ageism since his book came out, but Sam says it's not ageism because what he's proposing would apply to everyone who eventually becomes old. matched

So younger workers would also be subject to forced retirement at some point, right? matched

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