1/4: Men Without Work: Post-Pandemic Edition (2022) (New Threats to Freedom Series) by Nicholas Eberstadt (Author)
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🗓️ 28 December 2022
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1/4: Men Without Work: Post-Pandemic Edition (2022) (New Threats to Freedom Series) by Nicholas Eberstadt (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Men-Without-Work-Post-Pandemic-Threats/dp/1599475979
Nicholas Eberstadt’s landmark 2016 study, Men Without Work, cast a spotlight on the collapse of work for men in modern America. Rosy reports of low unemployment rates and “full or near full employment” conditions, he contends, were overlooking a quiet, continuing crisis: Depression-era work rates for American men of “prime working age” (25–54).
In a brand new introduction, Eberstadt explains how the government’s response to Covid-19 inadvertently exacerbated the flight from work in America. From indiscriminate pandemic shutdowns to almost unconditional “unemployment” benefits, Americans were essentially paid not to work.
Given the devastating economic impact of the Covid calamity and the unforeseen aftershocks yet to come, this reissue of Eberstadt’s groundbreaking work is timelier than ever.
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| 0:03.3 | Like the same, hmm. |
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| 0:26.4 | The season sees apply up to two kids stay in eat breakfast free with a full-paying adult. |
| 0:35.4 | This is CBS Eye on the World. |
| 0:38.4 | Here's John Batchler. |
| 0:41.4 | Men without work. |
| 0:43.4 | I welcome Nicholas Aberstout of the American Enterprise Institute |
| 0:47.4 | to help me understand his book published some years before |
| 0:51.4 | and now republished with a post-pandemic note from the author. |
| 0:56.4 | About what we learn from these years of statistics about men without work. |
| 1:01.4 | I will transfer my thinking immediately to a metaphor that Nick uses in the course of his presentation. |
| 1:08.4 | A ghost army. |
| 1:10.4 | Nick, congratulations again for updating your observations |
| 1:14.4 | of the middle of this second decade of the 21st century. |
| 1:18.4 | We're now plunged into the third decade. |
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