Maynard...
Posted on 01/27/2015 6:48:16 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
At every age, the chances of not working have changed in the last 15 years. Teenagers are far more likely not to work. Older people are retiring later and working more. In the ages in between — the periods of life when most people work — the changes have been smaller, but they are still substantial.
In the late 1960s, almost all men between the ages of 25 and 54 went to work. Only about 5 out of every 100 did not have a job in any given week. By 2000, this figure had more than doubled, to 11 out of every 100 men. This year, it’s 16. (People in the military, prison and institutions are excluded from these figures.)
Of course, the economy was stronger in 2000 than it is today, with a lower official unemployment rate — the share of people not working and actively looking for work — than today. But for prime-age men, the rise in official unemployment explains only about one-third of the increase in not working.
The remaining two-thirds is made up of those who are not working and not looking for work. Every month, the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Labor Statistics ask these men who are not in the labor force to describe their situation. Are they disabled, ill, in school, taking care of house or family, in retirement, or something else? Here are the trends within some of the larger of those categories:
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Interactive map of WHERE men aren’t working:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/12/12/upshot/where-men-arent-working-map.html#
This is an article from December, 2014. New York Times, so take it with a grain of salt. I did a title search - can’t find it posted, but please delete if it’s a duplicate.
Dobie Gillis says “Winning!!”
More like WON’T work.
It’s the Obama economy basically. A lot of people busting their asses working for peanuts look around and see others getting every freebie imaginable from the government including free healthcare.
They either say the hell with it and do likewise or try to get on disability.
Look at what the equivalent “pay scales” are for people on the dole.
As far as the young, many of whom have some of the worst work ethics, illegals have taken most of the entry level positions everywhere. The rest who want to work can’t find anything.
Coincidentally there’s a rise in men who just want to bang on the drum all day.
I suspect many of them are engaged in economically productive activities that aren’t on the official radar. A truck, a bag of tools, and an ad on Craigslist is all some young fellows need to get by for now.
Maynard...
Closer to 1 in 4 adults aged 25 to 54 are not employed.
The upper class had multiple servants
The middle class might have a maid (on TV, we saw this with "Hazel", "The Brady Bunch", "Maude", "Family Affair", etc. These shows were not ridiculous. Plenty of people lived like that.)
The lower class did basic work, including being the "help" for the others.
The Middle Class, by the way, usually had one income (the man). So, with one income, you can be in the middle class, raise a family, and have a maid.
Around about 1960 or so, feminists (who didn't have jobs, and didn't take care of a household -- they had a maid for that sort of thing) stood up and said, "We're bored and we don't like being second class citizens!" And they insisted on joining the workforce.
And there's nothing wrong with that, although I'm not sure they ended up with a great deal, that's not really my business.
And somehow we have transitioned to a society in which the middle class is shrinking rapidly -- and golly you need two incomes to even think about being middle class -- and men increasingly do not work, and a great many people are on the dole.
Something tells me that we went down a horrible path somewhere.
How much of this is due to the combination of the internet and near universal use of pre-employment background checks preventing people who made a mistake from never being able to put their past behind them?
Or a little seed money for a drug distribution franchise. ;-)
I credit feminism. Women want to work outside the house but don’t want to wash the dishes or clean the house.
Those are mostly Packer Fans, LOL!
I know several that fly under the radar, they do OK.
I cannot imagine how that works with employment.
I believe Nancy would say this is a good thing. They can write poetry, become artists, do paintings, make pottery.....things that contribute to society. But mostly collect welfare.
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