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A crisis overlooked: New York’s unemployed young men — and the nation’s

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By New York Post, 08/27/2022

“… As demographer Nicholas Eberstadt has documented, the share of men in the US labor force has been steadily declining since the mid-1960’s: Almost 81% in 1965, it’s down to 67.6% through July 2022. For “prime age” men — ages 25 to 54 — the participation rate was around where it was in early 1940, in the aftermath of the Great Depression, before the pandemic…”

Read the entire article: https://nypost.com/2022/08/27/a-crisis-overlooked-new-yorks-unemployed-young-men-and-the-nations/