> What are men doing if not working? On disability? Homeless? Retiring earlier? The article claims: > ... close to 100% of working-age men used to participate

> What are men doing if not working? On disability? Homeless? Retiring earlier? The article claims: > ... close to 100% of working-age men used to participate in back in the 1950s. Now that figure is 89%, and had been falling up until 2014. Economists cite multiple reasons: lower demand and wages for unskilled uneducated workers, retiring baby boomers, and an opioid crisis that disproportionately affects men.