S8 Ep737: 3. This segment features debates between supply-side and demand-side arguments regarding workforce decline. While Henry Olsen points to structural economic shocks and disability benefits, Jared Bernstein emphasizes weakening demand for labor. Eberstadt hi
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🗓️ 13 April 2026
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3. This segment features debates between supply-side and demand-side arguments regarding workforce decline. While Henry Olsen points to structural economic shocks and disability benefits, Jared Bernstein emphasizes weakening demand for labor. Eberstadt highlights a lack of official data on 25 million "invisible" American ex-felons. (3)
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| 0:35.0 | This is CBS. I on the world. |
| 0:37.4 | I'm John Batchel with Nicholas Eberstadt of the American Enterprise Institute. |
| 0:41.4 | His book, Men Without Work, republished as a post-pandemic edition, |
| 0:44.9 | and we will come to what Nick can tell us of the statistics |
| 0:48.7 | after the shutdown of the American economy in the late winter, early spring of 2020. |
| 0:56.1 | But now to two of Nick's colleagues, Henry Olson and Jared Bernstein, who contribute a different look at the |
| 1:03.3 | men without work statistics we've been discussing. I begin with Henry Olson because he speaks of |
| 1:10.0 | recessions. There have been seven since the war, I believe, Nick, what you provide. |
| 1:14.7 | And he points to the twin shocks of the 1970s. |
| 1:19.0 | Why so? |
| 1:19.8 | What does that mean for him? |
| 1:22.0 | Well, so Henry is talking about the recession and stagflation, the big shocks that came to the economy, |
| 1:33.5 | where we started to see the decline in manufacture, the really acceleration of the decline in manufacturing. |
| 1:40.8 | And Henry and other critics, and I think it's great to include some critics and dissent in a book because you got the argument started, |
| 1:49.4 | have pointed to these structural changes as being fundamentally unfavorable to the former male sort of employment mode. |
| 1:59.9 | The observation is that you've overestimated government causes and underestimated the change in |
| 2:07.9 | labor market. |
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