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Where Did Young Male Workers Go?
The Wall Street Journal ^ | Dec. 2, 2022

Posted on 12/03/2022 3:10:01 PM PST by MinorityRepublican

The Labor Department’s November jobs report on Friday certainly didn’t make the Federal Reserve’s anti-inflation task any easier. Strong job and wage growth suggests demand for workers still exceeds the supply, and inflation is still too high.

Employers added 263,000 jobs last month though gains were revised down by 23,000 during the previous two. Private payrolls increased by 221,000 with hiring broad-based, including in leisure and hospitality (88,000), healthcare (45,000), construction (20,000), media and tech (19,000), manufacturing (14,000) and real estate (13,000). There’s no sign of a recession in this jobs data.

Retail lost 30,000 jobs, probably owing to spending shifts to services from goods, which was bound to happen as the pandemic faded. Workers who lose jobs in department stores are finding them in other places. Notwithstanding reports of layoffs in Silicon Valley, plenty of businesses are hiring.

The problem is they still can’t find enough workers. The civilian labor force on the household survey shrank by 186,000 last month while the participation rate ticked down 0.1 percentage point to 62.1%. As a result, the unemployment rate stayed flat at 3.7%. Labor force participation remains significantly down from 63.4% before the pandemic.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: bideneconomy; labor; men; workers
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It’s not like anyone appreciates males in the work force, so why bother ?


21 posted on 12/03/2022 3:28:17 PM PST by escapefromboston (Free Chauvin)
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To: packagingguy
Here in the ghetto

"In the Ghetto..."

~Elvis

22 posted on 12/03/2022 3:29:10 PM PST by humblegunner
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To: MinorityRepublican

Affirmative action says the wimmens must be hired first.


23 posted on 12/03/2022 3:31:36 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

One of mine is off driving a semi somewhere, the other is at NASA doing some sort of satellite engineering work.


24 posted on 12/03/2022 3:33:22 PM PST by cyclotic (Follow 1776rm.com. Fighting for our Constitution. @1776RM on Truth)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Dropping dead from the Vaxx shots.


25 posted on 12/03/2022 3:34:17 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: dljordan

And collecting free stuff!


26 posted on 12/03/2022 3:38:02 PM PST by TribalPrincess2U (D.I.S.T.R.A.C.T.I.O.N.S.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

They’re all girls now.


27 posted on 12/03/2022 3:42:28 PM PST by Irenic
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To: MinorityRepublican

The young (conservative - think that matters?) men in our family are busy, working & bettering themselves. GOOD, productive men ARE out there:

- Getting an engineering degree, driving a city bus between classes/studying to make some $$

- Second year of surgical residency

- Running his own forestry business while starting a regenerative farm

- Working for a public accounting firm - just passed CPA (first time on every part)

- Plumbing supervisor


28 posted on 12/03/2022 3:46:25 PM PST by Qiviut (I'm not out of control, I'm just not in their control. $hot $hills: Sod Off)
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To: EEGator
“A case of the Mondays?”


29 posted on 12/03/2022 3:47:00 PM PST by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
Drugs. Video games. Porn.

Why not? There's no point. There's 50/50 chance you'll lose everything in a divorce. So where is the motivation? Our birth rate will continue to fall to 1.0 per woman. We will have to open our borders up even more and get many more millions immigrants just to prop up our economic system.

30 posted on 12/03/2022 3:47:44 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: newzjunkey

“I’ve been in the room with female superiors making comments that would amount to sexual harassment, hostile work environment if spoken by a man. Men tend to be results focused. Women often focus on personalities and gossip and many women don’t like working in that environment. I’ve seen women engage in campaigns of harassment in the workplace against men, women and gays. Men are dropping out, fewer college degrees, less workforce participation. Men have a tough time understand what their roles are. They’re mocked as foolish, for being toxic, for their feelings or not sharing their feelings, etc, etc.”

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Same thing I experienced. As a conservative woman in a leftist institution, the liberal women were the worst. If they decided someone had to go, they were relentless until that person was gone by either firing, or finally giving up and going taking a job elsewhere. They were crude, spiteful, and their remarks as bad as you would supposedly hear in a men’s locker room.


31 posted on 12/03/2022 3:49:49 PM PST by CFW
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To: gundog

“Turn on Channel 9 Peter...”


32 posted on 12/03/2022 3:51:20 PM PST by EEGator
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To: gundog
"******' A..."


33 posted on 12/03/2022 3:53:24 PM PST by EEGator
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To: MinorityRepublican

the same reasons they won’t breed.....they can’t????


34 posted on 12/03/2022 3:56:08 PM PST by cherry
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To: mewzilla

They became addicted to videogames.


35 posted on 12/03/2022 3:56:26 PM PST by Forward the Light Brigade ( Ride to the sound of the Guns!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

This young male worker turned into an older male worker, and then into a retiree.


36 posted on 12/03/2022 3:57:44 PM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: rbg81

We are in the Fourth Turning.


37 posted on 12/03/2022 4:09:02 PM PST by themidnightskulker (....And then the thread dies.... Peacefully.... In its sleep....)
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To: EEGator

“No HR complaints with just blue collar white dudes.“

Yep. No one in my world would last fifteen minutes in most offices.


38 posted on 12/03/2022 4:16:41 PM PST by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

They are home extorting money from their mothers


39 posted on 12/03/2022 4:16:41 PM PST by toddausauras (Trump Lake 2024....Go down swinging!)
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To: TalBlack

As long as the job is either hard physically or intellectually, one usually doesn’t have to deal with HR complaint people.
I once worked in an office that was evenly split male to female. I would never again especially in this day and age.


40 posted on 12/03/2022 4:20:31 PM PST by EEGator
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