The Current Job Market Is Shockingly Bad For 20-Something Men

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4. Here's what's happening to wages

This is due to the systematic denial of education to men. The root cause of the shape of this graph has been described as a "great accomplishment".

I assume from the fact that since your profile indicates that the men's group is your favorite group, that you are a man. If so, you're economically worse off than your father OR your grandfather.

Don't take it personally, it was a policy decision.

Over the past 40 years, a period in which U.S. GDP per capita more than doubled after adjusting for inflation, the annual earnings of the median prime-aged male have actually fallen by 28 percent. Indeed, males at the middle of the wage distribution now earn about the same as their counterparts in the 1950s! This decline reflects both stagnant wages for men on the job, and the fact that, compared with 1969, three times as many men of working age don’t work at all.