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7/24/2025, 7:57:52 PM
Can't believe no one has pointed out the obvious as of yet:
According to FRED (BLS data):
>January 1954 unemployment rate for White men 20+ was about 3.6%, and stayed in the 2-4% range through the 1950s-1960s.
>By April 2025, it sits around 3.3-3.7%, remarkably similar to mid-20th-century levels.
>Peak for this cohort came in April 2020 during COVID-19: about 12.3% - the highest on record.
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>Post-1960s, the baseline unemployment rate for White men 20+ has remained relatively stable with fluctuations driven mostly by recessions and recoveries.
>So the long-term baseline unemployment rate for White men overall has not trended upward over decades-it has hovered around ~3-4%, showing resilience except for cyclical spikes
Young men are not "dropping out" randomly like our media would suggest.
Literally nothing has changed other than the face of America. In the past, the face was white man. Now with rapid demographic change that is not so. The groups that have ALWAYS had higher unemployment rates are becoming the majority groups. Relatively speaking, they are more gainfully employeed than decades ago, when they were a much small portion of the population. However, they are still vastly more sitting idle compared to white men, then and now.
According to FRED (BLS data):
>January 1954 unemployment rate for White men 20+ was about 3.6%, and stayed in the 2-4% range through the 1950s-1960s.
>By April 2025, it sits around 3.3-3.7%, remarkably similar to mid-20th-century levels.
>Peak for this cohort came in April 2020 during COVID-19: about 12.3% - the highest on record.
Trading Economics
>Post-1960s, the baseline unemployment rate for White men 20+ has remained relatively stable with fluctuations driven mostly by recessions and recoveries.
>So the long-term baseline unemployment rate for White men overall has not trended upward over decades-it has hovered around ~3-4%, showing resilience except for cyclical spikes
Young men are not "dropping out" randomly like our media would suggest.
Literally nothing has changed other than the face of America. In the past, the face was white man. Now with rapid demographic change that is not so. The groups that have ALWAYS had higher unemployment rates are becoming the majority groups. Relatively speaking, they are more gainfully employeed than decades ago, when they were a much small portion of the population. However, they are still vastly more sitting idle compared to white men, then and now.
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