There are training programs if they wanted to work.
All the men around here, that don’t have any abilities and read/write at a 7th grade level, are on disability and there’s a LOT of them.
You know what will fix this?
Lets import another few million illegals willing to work for slave wages, and another few hundred thousand H1B visa holders that do work for slave wages.
Oh, and another few hundred thousand 4 year degrees in Social Misfitism will also help.
CBS News!
PASS. NO SALE.
This article confuses “not employed” with “unemployed.” This is a terrible mistake (or a purposefully misleading statement) for a writer from a so-called “major news source” to make. The author should be fired. Even so, the BLS reports that the labor force participation rate among males age 25 to 54 is 89.1%, which is roughly 1 in 9 who are not employed, not 1 in 7 as the article claims. The only way to get to anywhere close to 1 in 7 is to include males from this age group who are in jail or prison or in a mental health facility.
Maybe, sitting around in Mama’s basement, smoking weed, playing video games, and beating off to porn aren’t particularly marketable skills. But, of course, they’re too “stressed” to work because they saw someone wearing a MAGA hat, so off to SSI Disability they go.
We used to have a word for this type of “man”.
Bum.
There are training programs if they wanted to work.
OECD? Never EVER heard of this group. Besides with close to a MILLION more jobs available than there are workers to take them there is no excuse for anyone sitting on their ass unless they simply do not want to work.
It’s from See BS anyway so you know it has been spun to be negative against Trump.
so CBS went all the way back to pre-Obama to find better numbers for the class, than todays numbers. typical CBS.
Considering that colleges have been taking more women than men over the last two decades, it is no wonder that men aren’t getting a whole lot of the college-required jobs.
Considering that a good portion of those are probably snowflakes who have never left their mommy’s basement, which means they are in no way prepared for the REAL work that is available - construction is hiring just about EVERYWHERE and in EVERY INDUSTRY!! Trucking is hiring just about everywhere! There isn’t a large city police force that isn’t hiring every single year - most are hiring QUARTERLY!!!
The only reason 1 in 7 are out of work is because six out of every seven of those “ones” DON’T WANT TO WORK!! Or they are simply not capable of competing in 2019 for serious employment!!
There are indeed talented, creative, and productive men out there without jobs.
There are also untalented lying slouches who couldn’t produce value if their lives depended upon it.
So, let’s get rid of Democrat congresscritters out of office and create good jobs on the productive side of congress to bring the country forward.
Make the legal profession gr...er...at least minimally acceptable again.
I work in employee benefits.
Women are taking over and have all the cushy higher paying jobs in all areas and it’s growing. Veterinarians, dentist, pharmacy etc schools are now 90% women
Men w/o degrees are getting the $11 hr factory jobs with no future.
I know of plenty that have dropped out. They barter, under the table cash, work only when they need the money. live in a $3000 trailer and a 2001 rusted out Ford ranger pu worth $400
Drop off the grid both with women and jobs. They have given up in life
More common than what you think with that male demographic
They care about this now? Under their lord and master, Zerobowma, they kept changing the definition of unemployed. Now, basically if you can’t find a job within a month, they drop you from the unemployed roles. It is a crock, and it is fake news, even under Trump.
Shouldn’t unemployed include pretty much all Americans who aren’t working? That number would look really bad, but it would be far more accurate.
Pure BS. The “men” are lazy,living at home,hanging out,playing video games or every other way to be an American sloth.
There’s a guy standing on the median strip at a traffic light begging for money that I see every day on the way to work. He’s in his late 20’s I’d say. Very fit looking, neither overweight or emaciated. I’ve seen him with a cell phone before. Today he was dancing. As far as I can tell, he hasn’t missed a day in months. I suppose he would be considered unemployed.
In this economy, if they don't have a job, they don't WANT a job.
The Drug addled
Ones with Child and/or spousal support >50% of net income
Supported by wife, momma, or girlfriend
Cash worker
Yes Dem workers may make more but not near enough more to live in one of their worker’s paradises.
Many stores I walk into nowadays have “Help Wanted” signs in the window.
Screw the intentionally unemployed.
I do understand the goal for years has been to eliminate the white male. Promotion of minorities and females through diversity programs in hiring and education no matter the final cost.
I have three sons, 1 acquired through marriage (in his mid 40s), 1 acquired through his family’s lack of concern (in his mid 30s), and 1 through giving birth (in his early 30s).
The oldest one flitted from job to job until he was 30 (definitely his own fault because you have to show up to work to keep a job), went to tech school as a gateway into a DOD job and is earning decent money.
The middle one is making a career in the military. He is currently a recruiter, and you wouldn’t believe the number of people who would rather live on the dole or in their parents’ basement than go in the military.
The youngest went into the military after high school. He insisted that college would be a waste of his time and my money. Got out and went to school to become an EMT. He loved it so much he became a nurse.
Contrast this with my brother who is 50. He has been in the military at least twice, used up his GI bill, and has several certifications. Doesn’t want a job, he wants a position preferably one with no responsibilities just that 6 figure salary he deserves. I have no idea what he will do when my parents die.
My point is that there are jobs out there, and there is no way that 1 in 7 white males is without a job unless it is voluntary. They may not be the job you want, but they are jobs and it so much easier to get a job if you have a job. Even my senior citizen husband was working part-time until just a couple of months ago when I retired.
Just another attempt by the leftist press to make a 3.6 % unemployment rate look bad, and Trump along with it.