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Federalist Radio Hour

Why Aren't Working-Age Men Working?

Federalist Radio Hour

Radio America

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.53.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Nicholas Eberstadt, who holds the Henry Wendt chair in political economy at the American Enterprise Institute, joins Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky for a conversation about national staffing shortages and why high numbers of "prime working-age" American men are not working.

You can find Eberstadt's new book "Men Without Work: Post-Pandemic Edition" here: https://templetonpress.org/books/men-without-work-2/

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0:00.0

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0:04.8

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0:22.0

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0:27.2

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0:32.4

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0:43.4

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0:48.3

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1:07.7

We're back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour. I'm Emily Jashinsky,

1:11.5

culture editor here at the Federalist. As always, you can email the show at radioatthefederalist.com,

1:16.2

follow us on Twitter at FDRLST, make sure to subscribe wherever you download your podcasts as well.

1:21.6

Today we're joined by Dr. Nicholas Everstadt. He is the Henry Went Chair in Political

1:25.6

Economy at the American Enterprise Institute. He's also out with a new edition of his groundbreaking

1:31.2

2016 book Men Without Work Pandemic Edition that will be out on Labor Day, September 5th. Dr.

1:38.0

Everstadt, thank you so much for joining us. Thank you so much for inviting me, Emily.

1:42.3

Absolutely. Men Without Work is such an important book in the pandemic. I can imagine, as soon as

1:48.1

you watched the pandemic start to unfold across the country, you probably realized you were going to

1:54.2

need to do a second book. Well, I mean, there was probably a good reason to keep it updated even

2:03.6

without a world-shaking calamity. But you never, world-shaking calamity is always a good time for

2:10.8

a kind of like a read-check, right? That's right. You write, actually. I think this is in the

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