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posted by janrinok on Sunday October 09 2016, @03:39AM   Printer-friendly

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?


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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Sunday October 09 2016, @05:55AM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Sunday October 09 2016, @05:55AM (#411959) Journal

    Ostracized? Social circle? WTF? If men are worried about being ostracized by socialites, then they don't deserve anything better than leftovers. FFS - they can stay home and watch the soap operas.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 09 2016, @06:09AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 09 2016, @06:09AM (#411962)

    Haha thank you. Its a class issue, they only bring gender into it to further the misdirection of anger.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 09 2016, @06:47AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 09 2016, @06:47AM (#411983)

    they can stay in the basement and watch Star Trek.

    FTFY

    • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 09 2016, @07:37AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 09 2016, @07:37AM (#411988)

      Speaking of Trek, we're right on schedule for the Bell Riots in 2024.

      WEBB: This place is about to explode. Most of us agreed to live here because they promised us jobs. I don't know about you, but I haven't been on any job interviews lately.

      BC: Jobs? You guys want jobs? When are you going to get it? There are no jobs. Not for us, anyway.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 09 2016, @08:17AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 09 2016, @08:17AM (#411990)

    When people like Tim Hunt and Dawkins can stand against the tide, a puny mortal like you has no chance.