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  1. Discrimination against older people in
  2. employment, pensions, housing, and health
  3. care. To combat it the American Association
  4. of Retired Persons (AARP) has 30 million
  5. members, and in 1988 a similar organization
  6. was founded in the UK. In the USA the
  7. association has been responsible for
  8. legislation forbidding employers to
  9. discriminate; for example, making it illegal
  10. to fail to employ, to dismiss, or to reduce
  11. working conditions or wages of people aged
  12. 40-69.
  13.