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Interesting article:

The Slow Disappearance of the American Working Man
by Mike Dorning
Thursday, August 25, 2011

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A smaller share of men have jobs today than at any time since World War II

As President Barack Obama puts together a new jobs plan to be revealed shortly after Labor Day, he is up against a powerful force, long in the making, that has gone virtually unnoticed in the debate over how to put people back to work: Employers are increasingly giving up on the American man.

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http://finance.yahoo.com/career-work/art...sinessweek

[Samseau]

How retarded is the analysis in this article?

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Employers are increasingly giving up on the American man.

Hello... maybe the American man is giving up on employers?

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Men who do have jobs are getting paid less. After accounting for inflation, median wages for men between 30 and 50 dropped 27 percent—to $33,000 a year— from 1969 to 2009, according to an analysis by Michael Greenstone, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology economics professor who was chief economist for Obama's Council of Economic Advisers. "That takes men and puts them back at their earnings capacity of the 1950s," Greenstone says. "That has staggering implications.

So, men's average salary has plummeted, and this is because...

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For one thing, women, who have made up a majority of college students for three decades and now account for 57 percent, are adapting better to a data-driven economy that values education and collaborative skills more than muscle.

Men aren't getting those college edumacations!

And yet, despite women having all these degrees,

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[Women] continue to earn about 16 percent less than men and struggle against gender discrimination and career interruptions as they disproportionately take time away from the job to raise children.

Women are still earning less.

This article tries to make the claim that men earn less than women because they do not have college degrees, and yet those with a majority of college degrees aren't making more money as a result.

Moreover, when men were making the most money in American history, between 1955-1970, very few men had college degrees. This article has shit analysis and manages to be wrong on every conclusion.


A far more plausible explanation to the decline of the American standard of living: The state has grown to epic proportions, leaving less for the common citizen. We are being mismanaged by our centralized government and no one dares to speak against it.

[vinman]

(08-26-2011 08:13 PM)Samseau Wrote:  

How retarded is the analysis in this article?

Quote:

Employers are increasingly giving up on the American man.

Hello... maybe the American man is giving up on employers?

Quote:

Men who do have jobs are getting paid less. After accounting for inflation, median wages for men between 30 and 50 dropped 27 percent—to $33,000 a year— from 1969 to 2009, according to an analysis by Michael Greenstone, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology economics professor who was chief economist for Obama's Council of Economic Advisers. "That takes men and puts them back at their earnings capacity of the 1950s," Greenstone says. "That has staggering implications.

So, men's average salary has plummeted, and this is because...

Quote:

For one thing, women, who have made up a majority of college students for three decades and now account for 57 percent, are adapting better to a data-driven economy that values education and collaborative skills more than muscle.

Men aren't getting those college edumacations!

And yet, despite women having all these degrees,

Quote:

[Women] continue to earn about 16 percent less than men and struggle against gender discrimination and career interruptions as they disproportionately take time away from the job to raise children.

Women are still earning less.

This article tries to make the claim that men earn less than women because they do not have college degrees, and yet those with a majority of college degrees aren't making more money as a result.

Moreover, when men were making the most money in American history, between 1955-1970, very few men had college degrees. This article has shit analysis and manages to be wrong on every conclusion.


A far more plausible explanation to the decline of the American standard of living: The state has grown to epic proportions, leaving less for the common citizen. We are being mismanaged by our centralized government and no one dares to speak against it.

Your last two sentences were more valuable than that entire article.