{"id":56110,"date":"2024-08-14T11:29:48","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T15:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=56110"},"modified":"2024-08-14T11:29:48","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T15:29:48","slug":"i-hate-to-discriminate-on-the-basis-of-age-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=56110","title":{"rendered":"I Hate To Discriminate On The Basis Of Age, But&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/08\/12\/bill-pascrell-hospitalized-again-00173624\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Politico<\/a> reported that New Jersey Representative Bill Pascrell Jr.is back in the hospital after returning home briefly after a three-week stay in the hospital. Representative Pascrell is 87 years old. Why is he still in Congress?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/statistics\/1357207\/congress-members-average-age-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Statista<\/a> has a graph on its website showing the mean age of Congress. Here is the chart:<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"sectionHeadline sectionHeadline--statistic\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"display-block width100\">Mean age of Members of Congress in the United States from 2009 to 2023<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/AverageAgeOf-Congress.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-56111\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/AverageAgeOf-Congress.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"743\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/AverageAgeOf-Congress.jpg 743w, https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/AverageAgeOf-Congress-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/AverageAgeOf-Congress-500x300.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 743px) 100vw, 743px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/usafacts.org\/data\/topics\/people-society\/population-and-demographics\/our-changing-population\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">usafacts.org<\/a> , only 17.3 percent of America&#8217;s population is age 65 or older and 18.9 percent is ages 50 to 64. To be fully representative, the age of Congress needs to move down to somewhere between 50 and 60 to be truly representative.<\/p>\n<p>Representative Pascrell will probably get re-elected and may be in attendance for at least some of the House of Representatives activities, but wouldn&#8217;t it be wise for the voters of New Jersey to find someone a bit younger?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, Politico reported that New Jersey Representative Bill Pascrell Jr.is back in the hospital after returning home briefly after a three-week stay in the hospital. Representative Pascrell is 87 years old. Why is he still in Congress? Statista has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=56110\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8908,735,451,11668,467,1064],"class_list":["post-56110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bill-pascrell","tag-congress","tag-house-of-representatives","tag-members-of-congress","tag-new-jersey","tag-politico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56112,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56110\/revisions\/56112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}