Older workers face challenges

Each Monday morning except on holidays and when weather doesn’t permit, a group of unemployed Northern Coloradans meets at Faith Church on South Shields in Fort Collins. It’s called NoCoNet or Northern Colorado Networking Group.

A similar group, LongsPeak Networking Organization or LongsPeakNet, meets on Tuesday mornings at Lifebridge Church in Longmont. A third group, BoulderNet, meets on the first and third Thursdays at Mountain View United Methodist Church in Boulder.

The groups all operate similarly. Indeed, their origins came from Hewlett Packard engineers laid off when…