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> What are men doing if not working? On disability? Homeless? Retiring earlier? Committing suicide? https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullartic
by notadoc 7y ago
> What are men doing if not working? On disability? Homeless? Retiring earlier?
Committing suicide?
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2749451 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...
https://afsp.org/about-suicide/suicide-statistics/ https://afsp.org/about-suicide/suicide-statistics/
It's a horrible observation, as men are obviously in crisis.
There's a large percentage of working age men not in the labor force too.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS15000001 https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS15000001
https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2018/beyond-bls/mens-declining-labor-force-participation.htm https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2018/beyond-bls/mens-declining-...
Some perhaps they lost prior jobs and did not regain positions of parity, now they're disenfranchised, socially isolated, in some form of despair, or even homeless.
Anecdotally, the homeless populations I see everywhere in the west coast are 99% males aged 25-50.
- z9e 7y agoIt’s sad not seeing this get more attention in today’s politics.