An alarming percentage of working-age American men have exited the labor force in recent decades, threatening profound negative social consequences in the very near future. This is an unignorable and dire phenomenon that should not be a divisive issue. The trend has been ominously noted by observers on both left and right. However, with President-elect Donald Trump returning to the White House, armed with a sweeping voter mandate for change, could it finally be the time to right the ship before a tipping point is reached?
The numbers are indeed alarming. “The share of US-born, working-age (16 to 64) men not in the labor force has increased for six decades. It was 11.3 percent in April 1960, 16.9 percent in April 2000, and 22.1 percent in April 2024,” according to a December 19 report by the Center for Immigration Studies, a think tank opposed to…
