{"id":49380,"date":"2014-06-01T07:00:53","date_gmt":"2014-06-01T11:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=49380"},"modified":"2014-06-01T08:51:24","modified_gmt":"2014-06-01T12:51:24","slug":"if-this-is-what-recovery-looks-like-id-hate-to-see-hard-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=49380","title":{"rendered":"If This Is What “Recovery” Looks Like, I’d Hate to See “Hard Times”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ever stopped to think about how many American men between the ages of 25 and 54 are not working today? You know, because they’re looking but can’t find work (e.g., formally unemployed), are not working by choice, or for whatever reason?<\/p>\n

C’mon – take a guess. How many US males between 25 and 54 are not working today? One out of 20? One out of 15? Maybe one out of 12?\u00a0 After all, times are still kinda tough.<\/p>\n

Nope. Try about one out of six<\/span><\/em>.<\/p>\n

I’m not joking<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Since January 2009, the fraction of the US male population in prime work years (ages 25-54) not working has set multiple all-time records, and is damn near setting another.\u00a0 And the trend has been steadily upward. Here’s how the data looks, expressed as a graph:<\/p>\n

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Yeah, Mr. President – that economic “recovery” is going great guns. We’ve really “turned the corner towards good times”, haven’t we?<\/p>\n

To paraphrase Pyhrrus of Epirus: “Another such ‘recovery’ and we shall be utterly ruined.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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