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    Men Without Work: America's Invisible Crisis
    Men Without Work: America's Invisible Crisis
    Men Without Work: America's Invisible Crisis
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    Men Without Work: America's Invisible Crisis

    Written by Nicholas Eberstadt

    Narrated by Stephen R. Thorne

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    By one reading, things look pretty good for Americans today: the country is richer than ever before and the unemployment rate is down by half since the Great Recession.

    But a closer look shows that something is going seriously wrong. This is the collapse of work-especially among America's men. Political economist Nicholas Eberstadt shows that while "unemployment" has gone down, America's work rate is also lower today than a generation ago-and that the work rate for U.S. men has been spiraling downward for half a century. Astonishingly, the work rate for American males aged twenty-five to fifty-four-or "men of prime working age"-was actually slightly lower in 2015 than it had been in 1940: before the War, and at the tail end of the Great Depression.

    Today, nearly one in six prime working age men has no paid work at all-and nearly one in eight is out of the labor force entirely, neither working nor even looking for work. This new normal of "men without work," argues Eberstadt, is "America's invisible crisis."

    So who are these men? How did they get there? What are they doing with their time? And what are the implications of this exit from work for American society?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateJul 11, 2017
    ISBN9781541478725
    Men Without Work: America's Invisible Crisis
    Author

    Nicholas Eberstadt

    Nicholas Eberstadt holds the Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at AEI, where he researches and writes extensively on demographics, economic development, and international security in the Korean Peninsula and Asia. Domestically, he focuses on poverty and social well-being. Mr. Eberstadt is also a senior adviser to the National Bureau of Asian Research. His many books and monographs include Men Without Work: America’s Invisible Crisis (2016); A Nation of Takers: America’s Entitlement Epidemic (2012); Russia’s Peacetime Demographic Crisis: Dimensions, Causes, Implications (2010); and The Poverty of “the Poverty Rate”: Measure and Mismeasure of Want in Modern America (2008). He has offered invited testimony before the US Congress on numerous occasions and has served as consultant or adviser for a wide variety of units in the US government. In 2012, Mr. Eberstadt was awarded the prestigious Bradley Prize, and he delivered the Irving Kristol Lecture in 2020. He earned a bachelor of arts from Harvard University, a master of science from the London School of Economics, a master of public administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and a PhD in political economy and government from Harvard University.

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