Where Have The Men Gone?

[Ptarmigan]

Where Have The Men Gone?
https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/where-have-men-gone
Via
https://www.theepochtimes.com/opinion/where-have-the-men-gone-6023982

The Department of Labor keeps careful track of employment and the demographics thereof. Their latest report on men in the labor force is both mysterious and deeply alarming. It turns out that the labor force is missing about 7 million men who would otherwise be working. Close to a third of working-age men have vanished from the labor force.

The labor force participation rate among “prime age men,” age 25 to 54, in the 1950s approached 100 percent. Now it is 89 percent, meaning roughly 11 percent are not in the labor force (neither working nor looking for work).

Among all men over 16 years of age, the rate is a devastatingly low 66 percent, so about one-third are gone. Among U.S.-born men, nearly 22 percent are gone.

This is really quite shocking.

Labor participation for men has been declining since the 1960s. It had gotten worse since 2020. It is really startling.