In April, the share of American men in the workforce hit a historic low, with one in three neither working nor looking for a job. Aside from the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s the highest rate of male joblessness since 1948.
Here & Now‘s Indira Lakshmanan speaks with Betsey Stevenson, economist and professor of public policy at the University of Michigan’s Ford School, about why this is happening.
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