Is It a Drop in Incomes for Manual Labourers?

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A lot of traditionally mail jobs, if they haven't disappeared, have seen significantly reduced wages in areas like manufacturing and heavy industry. In part because of growing competition from overseas, and in part because of grown competition from machines, from robots. And so what that's meant is that actually the value of that labour has become less, and in particular, for less skilled men, earning a lot less. It's worth saying that men at the top of the distribution are doing better than men at thetop of the distribution were before. So the dream hoarding men are still doing very well indeed, thank you very much. But i think the bigger part of the story is to te general economic trends

Richard Reeves is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of Dream Hoarders and, most recently, Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It.

In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Richard Reeves discuss how the upper middle-class has cornered the market on economic opportunity; why helping men does not mean undoing progress for women; and whether the problems facing men and boys are more structural than we often think.

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