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S8 Ep737: 4. Post-pandemic updates reveal the "flight from work" is expanding to include women and older Americans. Massive government transfers and excess savings during COVID-19 further delayed reentry into the workforce. Eberstadt advocates for vocational trai

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 13 April 2026

⏱️ 9 minutes

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4. Post-pandemic updates reveal the "flight from work" is expanding to include women and older Americans. Massive government transfers and excess savings during COVID-19 further delayed reentry into the workforce. Eberstadt advocates for vocational training, "work-first" welfare principles, and better tracking of citizens with criminal backgrounds. (4)
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This is CBSI on the world.

0:37.0

I'm John Batchel with Nicholas Eberstadt.

0:39.1

His reissue of his Men Without Work, which was published in the middle of the second decade of the 21st century.

0:46.0

We're now in the third decade, and we've survived the pandemic that put everyone out of work momentarily.

0:55.0

Nick provides a chapter of some things that we can see that maybe change the argument, maybe do not.

1:01.2

Nick, one of the things that I'm struck by right now again and again is these numbers are changing not only for men, but also for women.

1:10.6

Do I read you correctly?

1:11.6

That women without work is a rising category.

1:16.0

Yes.

1:16.2

Well, unfortunately, the men without work problem that I described in the first edition is worse now than it was then.

1:26.7

You could almost draw a straight line from 1965 to the first edition of the book to where we are now six years later.

1:36.7

It's kind of uncanny.

1:38.3

But it looks as if other population groups may also be joining this flight from work, including people who are older

1:46.5

Americans, 55 plus, 65 plus, and now we're seeing some, I think, warning signs for prime age

1:56.3

women. I don't want to say it's a red flashing light, but maybe a yellow flashing light.

2:01.4

Is it a shock or is it a shift of the labor force?

2:05.3

Nick asked that question.

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