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Biden-Harris Economy Is Leaving Men Behind
U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL)
September 6, 2024
Hidden in the shadows and forgotten: That’s the only way to describe the state of male employment in this country. The percentage of men aged 25-54 who report working at all…[is] comparable to the share of American men working in 1940, at the tail end of the Great Depression….
And it’s made worse by another unavoidable stat: higher costs. Even before the most recent spike in inflation…, the median male worker could no longer provide a middle-class lifestyle for his family. The number of weeks he would need to work to pay for that lifestyle rose from 40 in 1985 to 62 in 2022, which is far more weeks than exist in a year….
[T]he Biden-Harris Administration’s response has been to merely pretend the problem away…. Manufacturing employment…flatlined and decreased last year, and manufacturing job quality is down…. Meanwhile, as recently as July, real hourly wages were lower than they were when Joe Biden and Kamala Harris took office in 2021….
Employment of native-born Americans, women as well as men, is actually 208,000 below its pre-pandemic level. And at the end of 2023, U.S.-born men without a college degree were less likely to participate in the labor force than they were before the pandemic. As I wrote earlier this year, this is the result of deliberate policy decisions: the “willful failure to secure the southern border and misguided expansion of immigration programs”….
There are real steps our government can take to improve the fortunes of working-age men. These include doubling down on pro-American industrial policies…, promoting vocational training in high schools…, [and] eliminating marriage penalties in the tax code, because married men earn more and report far greater happiness than do their unmarried peers.
The Biden-Harris Administration, however, appears uninterested in taking any of these steps…. For our society, the consequences of this are catastrophic. The fact that the male suicide rate has exceeded 23 people per 100,000, one of the highest such rates in our history, can’t be explained without it….