{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"","title":"#113 America's Male Unemployment Crisis: Ed Glaeser","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/6100770b31fd81f125b34d81/6100773c9a9767001477daa6.jpg?height=200","description":"Here's a paradox. While the U.S. unemployment rate is near a 16-year low, the percentage of all American adults in the workforce remains stuck at well below pre-recession levels.\n\nMen are much more likely than women to drop out of work. In the 1960's 95% of adult men between 25 and 54 were employed. Today, after 7 years of an improving job market, only 80% are in the workforce.\n\nPeople who don't look for a job are not counted in the official unemployment statistics compiled by the Labor Department. \n\nHarvard University Professor Edward Glaeser says \"there's a war on work.\" Taxation, housing, regulatory and social policies aimed at improving the lives of low income Americans, he says, often remove incentives for people to get a job. We based our episode on the findings and solutions suggested in Ed's article for City Journal-- \"The War on Work and How to End It.\"","author_name":"DaviesContent"}