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The State of Working Class Men


The State of Working Class Men - American Institute for Boys and Men

This report outlines the current state of America's working class men and describes recent trends in the key areas of employment, earnings, health, and family.

THE STATE OF WORKING CLASS MEN

Working class men in America need help. While the shift to a knowledge-based economy has blessed the more highly educated with strong and rising wages, working ...

Working class men: a troubling update - by Richard V Reeves

As you'll see, in some cases the class gap is much bigger than the gender gap, and vice versa. But overall the picture is clear. Working class ...

Working-Class Men Are Not Okay - Jacobin

Working-class American men are getting lonelier and sicker, and their lives are getting shorter. It's not just a sad state of affairs; ...

What Policymakers Need To Know About Today's Working Class

A new Center for American Progress analysis reveals that, in fact, today's working class is more diverse than ever. According to data from the ...

Working class men: a troubling update

This is a tale as old as time. Working class men are treated as if they are dispensable. Their bodies are used for the profit of others. So, ...

The Gender Divide in America's Election: Why Working-Class Men ...

The very legitimate economic anxieties of working-class men appear to be even greater among young working-class men, who see a future in which ...

The Intersectional Problems Facing Working Class Men

Consider, for example, working class men. They suffer from the general challenges facing men in our society today, but also from the challenges ...

Working-class American men are getting lonelier and sicker ... - Reddit

Using the college degree metric, the working class is less white and female than the rest of the population. Slightly more than half of the ...

Working class in the United States - Wikipedia

In the United States, the concept of a working class remains vaguely defined, and classifying people or jobs into this class can be contentious.

What today's working class wants from political leaders

Most Americans associate the working class with unionized male occupations such as manufacturing and construction that were dominant in the ...

Why Working-Class Men Are Falling Behind

You won't be surprised to learn that a disproportionate percentage of “slackers” are men. Males, particularly in the working class, are working less, earning ...

Understanding the Working Class | Demos

The working class today is much more complex and diverse than the white, male, manufacturing archetype often evoked in popular narratives.

What So Many People Don't Get About the U.S. Working Class

So is breadwinner status: Many still measure masculinity by the size of a paycheck. White working-class men's wages hit the skids in the 1970s ...

The State of the Working (and Non-Working) Man

And it. Page 8. 8 proposes solutions to give men access to better-paying work, restore male non-workers to the labor force, and help men fulfill their roles as ...

America's Working Class Majority - Hofstra University

In cartoons, fat capitalist plutocrats with cigars in their mouths and dollar signs for eyes were denounced as enemies of the common man. More recently, the ...

No, there is not a war on America's working class

Listen to certain pundits — such as Batya Ungar-Sargon, author of the new book “Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America's Working Men ...

White Working-Class Men in a Changing American Workforce

A new paper by economist Stephen Rose digs into the heart of the matter. By analyzing Census data on wages, education, and demographics from 1960 to 2014.

The Tenuous Attachments of Working-Class Men

Unlike past research, however, we show that working-class men are not simply reacting to changes in the economy, family norms, or religious organizations.

Who Makes Up the Working Class?

In today's America, the working class is more diverse than ever and increasingly consists of workers working nonindustrial jobs. Yet, when the ...