Posted on 04/08/2011 4:48:14 AM PDT by expat_panama
Men are disappearing from the workplace in ways that don't always register on the official unemployment rate
The March jobs report released on Apr. 1 seemed like the best in years. Labor Secretary Hilda L. Solis released a statement noting that the four-month drop in the jobless rate, to 8.8 percent from 9.8 percent, was "its largest decline since 1984."
Behind the headlines, though, statistics on jobs are far less encouraging. Yes, job growth has picked up somewhat. Yet an equally important reason for the lower jobless rate is that many people, men in particular, have simply given up looking for work and are no longer counted among the unemployed. Some sit at home. Some have become homeless. Rather than paying taxes on labor income, they are drawing government benefits, or relying on family and friends for support.
Economists are concerned that the recovery will extend an ominous trend of disengagement for male workers that stretches back six decades. The share of American men aged 16 to 64 who are employed has fallen in a sawtooth pattern, from nearly 85 percent in the early 1950s to less than 65 percent now. As the chart above shows, the rate falls steeply in recessions and does not get back to its previous high in recoveries. (Women's employment-to-population ratio has trended higher over the years.)
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The bottom line: The effects of the "mancession" on the male American workforce will be felt well into the recovery as some men stay stuck in unemployment.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessweek.com ...
The concern needs to be what this employment trend will do to America’s families and their ability to raise the next generation.
no influx of workers to what job creation
superimpose history of nominal minimum wage hikces on youth unemployment chart for some interesting reading.
After years, if not decades, of saying men are worthless, what do they expect?
Look at the slope for youth employment. Young people aren’t getting jobs. They aren’t developing a work ethic. The next generation is going to be crippled in several ways. Saddled with huge debt, from impoverished families, with no appreciation for hardwork. Life is going to be hard for many of them.
I think the “Robert Reich” plan is to get that white male line below all the others.
Exactly. The influx of illegals and exodus of manufacturing is having an impact. The dumbing down of the Educational system does not help.
Hidden my ass. All of us guys mowing the grass on a Wed morning know what the score is today. And with every job ap demanding to know my race and gender.....
Making men irrelevant is the Democrats plan for the future. They’ve already accomplished this in Black families through the welfare system, and now White families are being attacked.
Democrats know that in the absence of a man as breadwinner, women vote for candidates who promise to take care of them, and the Democrats are experts at promising cradle-to-grave government programs financed by other people’s money.
When I use to work for LM - a DoD contractor, their buzzword was diversity. I saw how incompetent people over time were promoted not because of merit but because of skin color or they were women. White males were promoted only if they were favored by management and required approval by many senior and executive managers at that ! The day I was laid off, they were hiring a load of young kids. Pretty disheartening !
This graph tells a much more important message than the weekly/monthly ‘employment’ statistics. This graph deals with our actual population, not the select number of ‘workers’ that get quoted on the newscasts.
Sounds like SCETV in the last few years I was there.
fyi
They aren’t developing a work ethic
Two explanations. I blame minimum wages, today's kids are great.
I see this every day in two different areas:
- Men 55 and older who lose their jobs and can’t convince anyone else to hire them (hate to say it, but their cost impact to the health plan of a small business is likely a factor here)
- Young working-class men 18-29 who in previous eras would go and get a day job in construction or manufacturing, are increasingly taking a step down the ladder and joining the ghetto-hoods in the lucrative drug trade.
1 in 5 families do not have a father around. And that is probably a low estimate. When the Fedgov is your daddy, you don’t need a man around.
I work with a part timer who just lost his full time job to a Chinese contract cut with his customers. The whole company is gone, last week. It is more cost effective for the company to perform these operations overseas and ship it half a world, than comply with local, state and federal statute.
He is an ardent leftist, and blames George Bush. Vows to vote for the one next year to avenge his loss.
When I ran a group of stockrooms, we found it better to hire females than males. They are more... pliable... and easier to control.
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