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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: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 09 2016, @09:07AM
First, it isn't -my- claim.
I said it was the **usual** rebuttal.
So far, there have been claims made and logic applied and a snide comment in response, but no one has actually linked to something that spells out the opposing view.
Factchecking: Barack Obama ad says women are paid "77 cents on the dollar for doing the same work as men" [politifact.com]
...though one someone thought it was intelligent to mod the comment Troll.
...instead of modding Disagree and saying why.
...and, again, linking to a rebuttal of the rebuttal which contains facts.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 09 2016, @01:10PM
Anyone with even the tiniest clue knows that the types of jobs are extremely relevant. Not knowing this makes you an idiot.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 09 2016, @09:21PM
Care to account for the fact that women pay women less than they pay men? In fact, women pay women less than men pay women.
I think womyn-born-womyn need to get their own fucking house in order if they and their intellectual whores want to bitch about that shit.