274: It's Worse Than You Think

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 39.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2022

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

The workforce participation rate that is. The number of able-bodied men choosing not to work is a crisis, and Nicholas Eberstadt, Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute, can prove it.

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0:00.0	Hello friends and welcome to the way I heard it.
0:06.1	Episode number 274 is upon us and it's worse than you think.
0:10.6	What?
0:12.6	The episode's worse than we think.
0:14.6	What?
0:15.6	No, that's the title I'm going with Chuck because after reflecting on the conversation
0:19.4	I just had with our incredible guest, Nicholas Everstadt, I'm afraid the situation in our
0:25.8	country vis-a-vis our workforce.
0:29.3	I knew it was bad, but it's worse than I thought.
0:32.4	And be honest, you feel the same way.
0:35.0	Well, it's true.
0:36.4	I do.
0:37.4	And he raises some great points in this discussion.
0:40.6	He's a really smart guy.
0:42.2	He works at the American Enterprise Institute.
0:46.1	Harvard, PhD.
0:47.1	Yeah, Harvard, he's got all the letters.
0:48.8	The alphabet.
0:49.8	All the initials you need to see behind a man's name to convince you that he might know
0:53.8	what he's talking about.
0:56.6	Follow the name of Nicholas Everstadt.
0:58.8	He wrote a book that caught my attention back in 2016, though I didn't really read it because
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