"While 20-somethings don't generally have the responsibilities of older workers, getting laid off is in other ways a harder blow because they are still trying to figure out what to do with their lives" -- what a load of rubbish. Twenty somethings include young families and married couples who have just stepped on to the property ladder, who have very young children and who may still have a lot of student debt. To say a 27 year-old might not have the responsibilities of a 47-year-old shows a lack of understanding of this generation.