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Binyamin Appelbaum writes at the NYT that the share of prime-age men — those 25 to 54 years old — who are not working has more than tripled since the late 1960s, to 16 percent as many men have decided that low-wage work will not improve their lives, in part because deep changes in American society have made it easier for them to live without working. These changes include the availability of federal disability benefits; the decline of marriage, which means fewer men provide for children; and the rise of the Internet, which has reduced the isolation of unemployment. Technology has made unemployment less lonely says Tyler Cowen, an economist at George Mason University, who argues that the Internet allows men to entertain themselves and find friends and sexual partners at a much lower cost than did previous generations. Perhaps most important, it has become harder for men to find higher-paying jobs as foreign competition and technological advances have eliminated many of the jobs open to high school graduates. The trend was pushed to new heights by the last recession, with 20 percent of prime-age men not working in 2009 before partly receding. But the recovery is unlikely to be complete. "Like turtles flipped onto their backs, many people who stop working struggle to get back on their feet," writes Appelbaum. "Some people take years to return to the work force, and others never do "
A study published in October by scholars at the American Enterprise Institute and the Institute for Family Studies estimated that 37 percent of the decline in male employment since 1979 can be explained by this retreat from marriage and fatherhood (PDF). “When the legal, entry-level economy isn’t providing a wage that allows someone a convincing and realistic option to become an adult — to go out and get married and form a household — it demoralizes them and shunts them into illegal economies,” says Philippe Bourgois, an anthropologist who has studied the lives of young men in urban areas. “It’s not a choice that has made them happy. They would much rather be adults in a respectful job that pays them and promises them benefits.”
(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Tuesday December 16 2014, @06:28PM
Hear hear! I know a woman that has been struggling for over 5 years to get on disability and she is a perfect example of what actually happens. The judges seem to not give a fuck simply because she is overweight while ignoring the medical problems are the REASON she is overweight, like the arthritis eating her knees up so badly that even with a cane its damned hard for her to walk, and the painkillers slowing her metabolism down, add in the neuropathy and the fact that her right shoulder was obliterated when the car she was riding in was t-boned and there really isn't any job she can do but she still gets turned down over and over and has to live on a friends couch. She can't sit behind a desk as the blood flow will be constricted below the knee, the knees won't let her stand for long periods and being right handed with a right shoulder that won't hold any real weight? Damned if I can think of a job she could do for any length of time.
If there is anybody that should get it its her, she spent her life working low paying jobs that help people like meals on wheels and driving a rehab bus for the elderly but while they'll hand it to the methhead that burned their brains up that poor woman still has to live off the charity of others, just pathetic.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.