Men Without Work: America's Invisible Crisis (New Threats to Freedom Series)
by Nicholas Eberstadt
View on GoodreadsHow can the unemployment rate look low while so many men aren't working? Eberstadt's answer is that it counts only people looking for work. Since the mid-1960s, through booms and recessions, men aged 25 to 54 have been leaving paid work, and it went overlooked for decades.
Core ideas
- Back to 1940: By his count, prime-age male work rates had fallen to levels comparable to 1940, with roughly one in six doing no paid work.
- Not even looking: About one in eight weren't looking for work at all, and the book turns to disability programs and roughly 20 million men with felony records.
- A debate built in: Jared Bernstein offers a progressive response, Henry Olsen a center-right one, and Eberstadt closes with a rebuttal.
Published2016
Pages216
ISBN9781599474694
ReadFeb 2023
