That is another issue, also many are not willing to start at a lower position or pay or can’t afford to. Son took the pizza delivery job, worked it for a month in order to move into the manger’s position, he knew from the start, the hiring district manager wanted to fire the incompetent manager. He is a work-aholic despite being a Type 2 Diabetic.
The new age limit is 40 since Obama’s Depression. Lucky to have got the job, but this is a small rural town, no real businesses but fast food. Kroger’s is the biggest employer. And if he’d gone into Memphis, he was the wrong skin color to boot.
Youngest works in a steel cabinet making factory, and most of the blacks get away with not working. While he works his butt off, and can do every job in the plant, he’s the one that gets the larger raises too. I taught them by example that you work if you want things in life. Single mom for a decade, no child support or welfare, just a HS education and a determined will and a lot of commonsense.
The issues for workers over 40 started before the Greater Depression; they just became more visible after 2007/2008.
In my area rather than deal with paying better white workers higher wages than non-performing blacks (which would just get the company sued - successfully), many employers simply don’t hire them - it isn’t worth the hassles. They prevent lawsuits by hiring Hispanics instead, to the point where they even seem to avoid hiring white Americans if it can be avoided.