Posted on 10/08/2019 11:54:13 AM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
America's job market may be the strongest it's been in at least half a century, but not all workers are getting a lift. The proportion of men in their prime working years without a job is higher today than it was before the Great Recession, according to a new study.
Roughly 1 in 7 U.S. men between the ages of 25 and 54 aren't employed, federal labor data show. That's a higher rate of unemployment for the group than in 2007, the year before the housing crash slammed the economy.
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I don’t give a Fluck about these men and their lack of a job.
There are jobs everywhere and it seems impossible a man couldn’t find one and it oays well
If they aren’t employed, what are they doing? Who is supporting them? How do they pay their bills?
Men? You call these wimp arse non-binary snowflakes men? They wouldn’t know a hammer if it hit dem in the head!
Exactly. My guess is these are the mama’s basement “men,” the ones Occasional Cortex said don’t want to work...
LMAO
Look folks, it will never be perfect. I think Trump has done a great job, and we still have some outliers. Think we didn't have them under Obama, Clinton, or Carter?
Things have massively improved, especially for our minorities that really did need a lift.
Trump has done more for minorities than any demoncRat in 50 years or more.
Why are we believing this so easily?
And if it was right, if i wasn’t so lazy i’d check into who they’re counting.
There are too many men that don’t want to work.
We need more immigration. That will fix the problem
I C B S
1 in 7 men between 25 and 54 are unemployed? That, I believe is CBS Fake News...total BS.
I think there are two ways of looking at this —
1) There are a bunch of lazy, shiftless guys out there who aren’t trying hard enough to find jobs.
2) Our culture (government and media) have really messed with us. Women and other special interest groups get lots of privileges but the average Man out there gets shafted. A lot of men have given up because they perceive the deck is stacked against them.
I think society tilts toward women more than it should. I don’t favor discrimination, but I think the message has become “Women are awesome and men suck” and that is not a good message.
White men over 50. Fixed it for you.
I think that this is BS all the way...Made up or misrepresented figures...
The democrats are counting on these lazy people to support communism since they have nothing else going for them.
Social Security Disability and jail would be my guess.
Should say “white men.” My 34 to SIL can’t find a job. Everywhere he applies the companies loudly proclaim “minorities and women encouraged to apply!”
Everyone I know who wants a job, has one.
Even an ex-drug addict friend of mine managed to find one a clinic.
She hadn’t been employed for 10 years.
I am a landlord in the low end rental market. If somebody doesn’t have a job in today’s economy it’s because they don’t want one. Even people who were previously passed over because of criminal convictions are employed now. (I had a tile setter as a renter with several priors. He could be working 60 hours a week if he could physically do it.)
How are they living? Drug sales, using their EBT card to buy expensive meat and reselling it...quite a large market according to an ex-renter. Also, many work for cash at a variety of jobs. Don’t forget begging, which can net a pretty fair amount of cash. People doing this have no desire to tie themselves to a 40 hour job, day-in-day-out for week after interminable week.
It does not matter if it is 1 in 7 or 1 in 7000, there is no excuse not to have a job in this economy.
YES, YES, YES! WE MUST IMPROVE THE PLIGHT OF THE ALMIGHTY MINORITIES!
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