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Apr 2023
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#614 - Nicholas Eberstadt - Why Do Milli...

Chris Williamson
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Nicholas Eberstadt is a political economist, demographer, American Enterprise Institute scholar, and an author.

More than 7 million prime working age men in America are not looking for work, and each year that number continues to grow. Given that unemployment is at a massive low, why are so many capable men checking out of the workforce and don't intend on coming back?

Expect to learn why massive cohorts of men aren’t looking for employment, the repercussions of mass joblessness, how these men are able to support themselves, why they spend over 2000 hours a year on screens while smoking weed, the reason you haven’t heard about this issue before, what it does to men's mental health, the impact of women being the bread winners and much more...

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