TIL: male employment in the US
Nov. 23rd, 2019 11:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
In an economy booming by the traditional measures of surging stock values and rock-bottom unemployment, a key indicator continues to flash red: 18% of men aged 25 to 54 don’t have full-time work. That’s a vast improvement over the 25% who were idle or working only part-time in 2010. But by pre-Great Recession standards, the present resembles the bottom of a downturn, underperforming the worst points in either the 1990-91 or 2001 recessions.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-to-get-american-men-working-again-11574436197
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Date: 2019-11-24 01:24 am (UTC)