Tuesday, March 28, 2017

Men Without Work | Thoughts from the Frontline Investment Newsletter | Mauldin Economics

Men Without Work | Thoughts from the Frontline Investment Newsletter | Mauldin Economics



... The growing incapability of grown men to function as breadwinners cannot help but undermine the American family. It casts those who nature designed to be strong into the role of dependents – on their wives or girlfriends, on their aging parents, or on government welfare. Among those who should be most capable of shouldering the burdens of civic responsibilities, it instead encourages sloth, idleness, and vices perhaps more insidious....  



...the some 20 million former felons who have been relegated to second-class workforce status...



...Maybe we need to rethink about how long felony convictions stay attached to personal records. When you can’t even rent an apartment in many states because you were a felon, and in some cases simply because you were charged with a felony at some time in the past, is it any wonder that we have large numbers of people not participating in the labor force?...



...Between 1948 and 2015, the work rate for U.S. men twenty and older fell from 85.8 percent to 68.2 percent. 

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