Posted on 07/26/2023 8:11:26 PM PDT by anthropocene_x
Millions of men are abandoning the workforce at an alarming rate, according to analysis of Census Bureau data by the Pew Research Center.
The data reveals that 71% of young men (aged 25 years old at the time of the study) held full-time jobs, down from 85% in 1980.
A survey conducted by the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank found that 25% of young Americans were out of work, many of whom had been laid off during the pandemic and have since struggled to find the right job.
Real earnings for men without college degrees has dropped 30% since the 1980s. The relative decline in earnings also had an impact on the social status of these jobs, which impacts men in the marriage market. Younger men are more likely to see their social status and marriage prospects diminish if their peers are outearning them.
By some measures, prime-aged men have worse mental and physical health now than 30 years ago.
(Excerpt) Read more at moneywise.com ...
nope, only the romney / bush / biden type families at the expense of the other 99%
“and have since struggled to find the right job”
Back in the day, you took a job as a stepping stone to find a better job. You didn’t “struggle to find the right job” when you were unemployed.
Think about how bad the economy sucked in 1980 but still 85% of 25 y/o men worked. Wasn’t it in Autumn of 1979 that Carter gave his infamous Great Malaise speech? I not sure what to call the funk we’re in at the moment. It seems young men don’t have any piss and vinegar these days. Despite the the terrible economy in the early 80’s everyone I knew and myself were determined to be out on their own, working and taking on the world. Maybe Atari just wasn’t good enough to make us want to live in Mommy and Daddy’s basement.
Just today here in NY, I heard a radio ad from the State Dept of Transportation looking for road maintenance workers.
It blew my mind
Ever since I was a kid, a state job like that would only go to a politician’s brother-in-law or someone connected to a political party. Such a job would never hit the open market, much less be advertised on radio.
This article reads like it was written in 1980. Since then, states have required benefits for anyone who works more than 24 hours a week. That caused employers to eliminate full time jobs.
Revitalize a good ass whoopin BY THE FATHER and you will see males/boys/young men getting any job close by and then move on into the world with God’s grace.
Then you wonder who is supporting these young men financially.
How do they pay their bills?
Yes, if they still live in their parents house ,they may not be paying rent. But who pays for their food , clothes, cars , car insurance, video games, etc? Do they have parents who don’t insist that they go find a job even if it isn’t their ideal job?
I am surprised it is that high..
A large proportion of the difference went to college and grad school. That’s eaten up a large share of the youth labor force.
For the most part they are wasting their time there.
Several factors:
- illegal aliens indoctrinated with racist views toward America and Americans
- bad or poor quality of management that mistreats people
- drug syndicates and their “marketing”
- social media indoctrinating (so-called “influencing”) people with *looking up* to bad behavior (of several forms, almost all - violent) and not respecting Jesus simple commands:
Prefer God and Love neighbors - do what Jesus would recommend, among the decisions to be taken.
- cultural civil warfare (some of which is “lawfare”) in which, standing up for Jesus makes a man marked for being “politically impure” according to progressives’ thought police
- and other discouraging things that promote frustration
IMHO
"State Dept of Transportation"
Real earnings for men without college degrees has dropped 30% since the 1980s.
When they’ve been replaced by Juan, Jesus, Pancho, and others from around the world, there ain’t much they can do.
Indeed, now young Americans leave construction to their lessers. Its become below their false ideals to pick up a shovel, pick or hammer and go to work.
I don’t know how common it is, but I see a lot of “Dear Abby” letters that involve a working-age man mooching off his girlfriend. It certainly seems more common among people my age (mid-30s) than among older generations.
America doesnt need them, girls do everything better. So they’re sitting it out in gynocentric misandrist societies that find faultwith any choice they make.
Its good in the long run, many will learn not to give two sh1ts about what women and others say about them.
Yeah thats all you think of when young men are in trouble.
Nah, screw the arm splint, it’s just easier to wake up in the morning and call yourself a girl. 😂
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