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

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The Problem With Male Unemployment

More than 7 million men between the ages of 25 and 54 are neither working nor looking for work. That's four times as many guys who are not actually unemployed, but out of a job and looking for one. If you're only looking at the unemployment number, you're missing four-fifths of the problem. We've got four prime age men with the 25 to 54s. There are people who could reasonably be expected to be in the workforce looking for a job.

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