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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Albert Toth

‘Wealth-hoarding boomers’ stereotype is age discrimination, MPs say

Ageist stereotypes are ‘damaging’, MPs say - (Getty/iStock)

Depictions of older people as hoarding wealth and working against the young are “ageist stereotypes”, a cross-party group of MPs has said.

The women and equalities committee writes that the “boomers” trope, referring to those born between the mid-1940s and mid-1960s, is a “significant contributory factor to the normalisation of ageist attitudes” in the UK.

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