America’s Unseen Social Crisis: Men Without Work

[question everything]

A report in TIME magazine, looking at the trend and the reasons.

http://time.com/4504004/men-without-work/

But what caught my attention and could not help it was this:

By and large, these unworking men are floated by other household members (wives, girlfriends, relatives) and by Uncle Sam. Government disability programs figure prominently in the calculus of support for unworking men—ever more prominently over time. According to Census Bureau data, nearly three-fifths (57%) of prime-male unworkers in 2013 were obtaining benefits from at least one disability program.

And I could not help thinking that many of them are teabaggers, or Trumpkins, or just haters of "big government."

[upaloopa]

1. Or they could be diabled. Or retired like me.

I don't think "being floated" is a very good term to use. It says these people can work but refuse.

[roamer65]

2. A lot of heavy industry and manufacturing jobs they worked are gone.

If they do find a job, it is often low paying.


A lot of them have lost hope. The big question is how do we bring it back for them?