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<h1 style="text-align: center;">millions of men are missing from the job market</h1>
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<li>] by Editorial Board @nytimes.com - analysis of us employment numbers, Not Working, Not Looking Percent of men, ages 25-54, who are outside the labor force (not employed and not seeking a job). Currently @ 11.4%, 7M people, # rising for decades ( was &lt; 4% in 1950,) the numbers have been steadily increasing since 2007 recession.</li>
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<h2>[WHY]</h2>
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<li><strong>] READ THE FULL ARTICLE</strong></li>
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<li>]&nbsp;<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/17/opinion/millions-of-men-are-missing-from-the-job-market.html?_r=0" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/17/opinion/millions-of-men-are-missing-from-the-job-market.html?_r=0</a></li>
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<li>] 2016-10-16</li>
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<div>Economists have long struggled to explain why a growing proportion of men in the prime of their lives are not employed or looking for work. A new study has found that nearly half of these men are on painkillers and many are disabled.&nbsp;</div>
<p>Surveys taken between 2010 and this year show that 40 percent of prime working-age men who are not in the labor force report having pain that prevents them from taking jobs for which they are qualified. More than a third of the men not in the labor force said they had difficulty walking or climbing stairs or had another disability. Forty-four percent said they took painkillers daily and two-thirds of that subset were on prescription medicines. By contrast, just 20 percent of employed men and 19 percent of unemployed men (those looking for work) in the same age group reported taking any painkillers.</p>
<p>The connection between chronic joblessness and painkiller dependency is hard to quantify. Mr. Krueger and other experts cannot say which came first: the men&rsquo;s health problems or their absence from the labor force. Some experts suspect that frequent use of painkillers is a result of being out of work, because people who have no job prospects are more likely to be depressed, become addicted to drugs and alcohol and have other mental health problems. Only about 2 percent of the men say they receive workers&rsquo; compensation benefits for job-related injuries. Some 25 percent are on Social Security disability; 31 percent of those receiving benefits have mental disorders and the rest have other ailments, according to an analysis by the Urban Institute.</p>
<p>it&rsquo;s clear that job market changes can have significant health effects on the labor force. Increased automation and the offshoring of jobs have hit men with less than a college education particularly hard.&nbsp;</p>
<p>More research is clearly needed. In the meantime, some things could be done to help workers who&rsquo;ve given up. Congress could appropriate money for the opioid addiction treatment and prevention programs they authorized in July. And federal and state governments could focus economic initiatives where long-term joblessness is highest, especially in the South, Southwest and Midwest. This could be done through targeted investments in infrastructure and education that could create jobs and bolster the skills of local workers.&nbsp;</p>
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<h2>[REFERENCE]</h2>
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<li>] SRC = HN, (#)&nbsp;<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12724104" target="_blank">comments</a>&nbsp;(#)</li>
<li>] The&nbsp;<a href="https://www.bostonfed.org/-/media/Documents/economic/conf/great-recovery-2016/Alan-B-Krueger.pdf">working paper</a>&nbsp;by&nbsp;<a title="More articles about Alan B. Krueger." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/k/alan_b_krueger/index.html?inline=nyt-per">Alan Krueger</a>, a Princeton economist, casts light on this population, which grew during the recession that started in 2007.&nbsp;</li>
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