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The "quiet catastrophe" is particularly dismaying because it is so quiet, without social turmoil or even debate. It is this: After 88 consecutive months of the economic expansion that began in June 2009, a smaller percentage of American males in the prime working years (ages 25 to 54) are working than were working near the end of the Great Depression in 1940, when the unemployment rate was above 14 percent. If the labor-force participation rate were as high today as it was as recently as 2000, nearly 10 million more Americans would have jobs.
The work rate for adult men has plunged 13 percentage points in a half-century. This "work deficit" of "Great Depression-scale underutilization" of male potential workers is the subject of Nicholas Eberstadt's new monograph "Men Without Work: America's Invisible Crisis," which explores the economic and moral causes and consequences of this:
Is it an aberration, or a harbinger of things to come?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 09 2016, @05:10AM
Actually, a large portion of this is easier to describe:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/no-country-for-burly-men/article/17737 [weeklystandard.com]
It's not like there isn't a ton of infrastructure that needs to be built, but when feminist siphon off a large chunk of the funds, you're left with a crumbling country, massive debit, and very little to show for it (except for some rich bankers and feminist).
And if we are honest, a goodish portion of men have seen the handwriting on the wall and checked out (and for my younger brothers, I feel for you; get out when you can). Best pray there are some major advancements in robotics otherwise when the country is blighted, there will be no one left to fix it.
And be careful driving over bridges
http://www.wnyc.org/story/283331-report-one-in-nine-bridges-in-america-structurally-deficient-potentially-dangerous/ [wnyc.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 09 2016, @04:55PM
Feminists siphoning off the funds? You don't quite sound like a crackhead, but I'm going to recommend you lay off it anyway.