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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 Monday October 10 2016, @03:53AM
> Actual studies on the topic, correcting for all the usual suspects (age, hours of work, experience) find, in the USA, that the percentile gap ascribable to sex is about
Yes, if you factor out all the important stuff then its nearly equal. Yay! Equality!!
But why is it that women works less hours and have less experience?
Answer - because they are expected to sacrifice their careers for their family, especially single mothers who nearly always carry the entire burden of childcare. That's fucked up, and should be especially concerning to red pillars who believe society forbids them from putting the time in to care for their children.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 11 2016, @03:44PM
Ooh, good call there, chief!
As soon as you find a way to fix that ugly biological reality of mammalian reproduction, let the world know.
Go on, we're all waiting.
What's taking so long?
... and not to distract you while you're working, but what the hell is a red pillar and why does it have opinions?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 17 2016, @04:19PM
The majority of "single mothers" are such because they made bad choices.
Do you believe that nobody should suffer the consequences of their bad choices?
If yes, you're the ideal Hillary voter. Free stuff for everyone! No consequences for anyone! W@@T!