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#614 - Nicholas Eberstadt - Why Do Millions of Men Not Want to Work?

Modern Wisdom

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The Hidden Catastrophe of Male Unemployment

A married African American man is less likely to be in this cohort than an unmarried white American man. If you are a foreign-born guy and you're a high school dropout, your labor force participation is going to be very close to that of a native-born college guy. So it's not just the disadvantage of the skills. There's something else going on.

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