Blue collar U.S. males lose more ground

[RamboLiberal]

Source: Reuters

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One statistic that stands out in America's recession-stung economy is the unemployment rate for adult men: in April for the second month in a row it surged ahead of the national average to 9.4 percent versus 8.9 percent for all workers. The jobless rate for adult women was 7.1 percent.

The reasons are clear: male-heavy sectors such as construction and manufacturing have been hard hit. But the implications may be dire for the broader economy and hamper the recovery as families that once had male breadwinners struggle.

"In the 2001 recession, 51 percent of all job losses were for men. It was evenly split. But in this recession 80 percent of the jobs that have been lost have been men's," said Andrew Sum, a labor economics professor at Northeastern University who has studied this issue in detail.

Men also incurred about 80 percent of the job losses in the 1990-91 recession, but Sum said by his calculations the numbers this time were dramatically different. In the 1990-91 recession, men lost 1.037 million jobs. They have lost 4.5 million to date in this one.

http://www.reuters.com/article/economicNews/idUSN1450507420090518

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[FrenchieCat]

1. The statistic that stood out for me was a 15% jobless rate for Black Men.....

But I guess that's too bad for them. :shrug:

[NobleCynic]

2. Sadly, high jobless rates among that demographic isn't news

It's been the shame of America for some time now, only made worse by our prison-industrial complex.

[Hannah Bell]

3. & the ue figures don't count the prison population as being in the workforce. thus, not unemployed.

[fasttense]

5. But they do count the military as employed.

Raygun started that. So, every time an American military is killed, there is another job opening. Thanks Raygun.

[pinqy]

7. Not anymore

The CPS redesign in 1994 took the military out of the population. No one paid any attention to the rate with the military, preferring the civilian rate instead.

[pinqy]

8. because they're not in the workforce...

They can't freely enter or leave, so they're not part of the labor force and cannot be part of the labor force. Including them would distort the figures just as including the military distorted the figures. The ILO does reccomend including domestic military, but I can't agree to that one.

[fasttense]

4. Hey, that's nothing. Here in East TN unemployment rate is 15.2%

Just another jobless recovery. Pretty soon we'll have so many of those jobless recoveries, no one will have a job.

[Alcibiades]

6. Lay off blue collar men, but no caps on pay for bank execs

And yet who is more responsible for the mess we are in?