Posted on 10/22/2018 2:55:31 PM PDT by OddLane
The US stock market continues to set new records. Unemployment continues to go down. The United States is now at or near full employment. According to a Bloomberg headline last year, The Jobless Numbers Arent Just Good, Theyre Great.
But a closer look at economic data by demographer Nicholas Eberstadt reveals something else entirely. While unemployment has gone down, the work participation rate, and especially the male work rate, has been relentlessly declining for most of the post-War era and is now reaching a crisis with Depression-era levels.
In his new book, Men Without Work, Eberstadt describes this as a deep moral and social crisis which is passing almost unnoticed by politicians, pundits, business leaders and economists...
(Excerpt) Read more at intellectualtakeout.org ...
Actually, the Labor Force Participation Rate collapsed for the entirety of the Obama disaster and stopped falling immediately upon Trump’s inauguration.
You can see it for yourself here:
https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300000
I plead guilty...Ain’t drawn no paychecks since 1993....IDLE?
Being unable to pass a drug test keeps many from working unless they go into politics or crime.
What are you doing? Work your fingers to the bone so we can take it all to give to invaders and the wife you’ve been oppressing with your male privilege peon.
the exception is white middle-aged men.
We are the equivelent of No Irish need apply.
When you see the “self-identification” you know you’re screwed unless you’re a minority of one stripe or another.
Many of them probably are active in some sort of money-making activity. Just because they don’t report anything to the government doesn’t mean they aren’t out doing some sort of work.
If healthy men are unemployed in this economy, it’s because they don’t want to be. Everybody is advertising job openings.
Has the increase in female participation rate surpassed the decrease in male rate?
NILF?
No mention of a break down by race.
Men on Strike.
No respect, No work.
The article linked is dated October 18, 2016.
Nicholas Eberstadt published a book “Men Without Work” in September 2016. It was dealing with statistics from the Obama era. I would hope things have improved in the Trump era.
“If healthy men are unemployed in this economy, its because they dont want to be. Everybody is advertising job openings.”
Yes, but you still have to be qualified, have to have recent experience, have to be young enough, etc.
You’ve bought into the perception. The data indicates that reality is different.
Pre-Trump article.
sooner or later the lack of qualified labor will force the labor marker to bring back older, experienced workers ... at least those who still need to and/or want to work ... i myself am quite content to live off of my accumulated wealth and work when and for whom i want to work for ...
I am sixty years old and have 38 years experience in my field. Back in 2008 I was employed full time and also still operating my business in the same field. I brought work into my employers shop. Then the crash happened and by this time in 2009 the company closed. I had big setbacks trying to get my wifes ceiling business off the ground but it crashed too, and I was out of work and out of money.
I have applied for dozens of jobs all over the country. Had a few interviews but no offers. I had a good shot at a job recently but blew it due to not knowing the latest software version well enough. No one wants to do any kind of training. Im resigned to rebuilding my business.
It is VERY hard for a white male over fifty to get a sniff of a good job today.
There are jobs out there if someone wants to work.
Its because they are all fine with white males not being around.
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