Amidst widespread talk of income inequality and the rise in working women, many American men have retreated from the labor force steadily since 1965. Nicholas Eberstadt, AEI’s Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy, noticed this trend in 2014 and began work on a project tracking men who lie outside the reach of traditional measures of unemployment since they are not working or looking for work. That project culminated in https://www.amazon.com/Men-Without-Work-Americas-Invisible/dp/1599474697/ref=sr_1_1?adgrpid=1331509147128689&hvadid=83219392903661&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=90931&hvnetw=o&hvqmt=e&hvtargid=kwd-83219671600453%3Aloc-190&hydadcr=22625_10475310&keywords=men+without+work+america%27s+invisible+crisis&qid=1665065972&qu=eyJxc2MiOiIwLjAwIiwicXNhIjoiMC4wMCIsInFzcCI6IjAuMDAifQ%3D%3D&sr=8-1 (Men Without Work: America’s Invisible Crisis). In 2022, Eberstadt released a https://www.aei.org/research-products/book/men-without-work-2/ (Post-Pandemic Edition) of Men Without Work, which forms the backbone of today’s discussion. We discuss who the men without work are, how they spend their time, and how to convince society that work as an institution is a worthy investment of time. Mentioned in the Episode https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&&p=fd9fda5cd1fa1320JmltdHM9MTY2NTAxNDQwMCZpZ3VpZD0yOGE4MWM4ZS1hNjBlLTYyYjktMDU0OC0wYzAxYTc1YzYzZjAmaW5zaWQ9NTE5OQ&ptn=3&hsh=3&fclid=28a81c8e-a60e-62b9-0548-0c01a75c63f0&psq=harvard&u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaGFydmFyZC5lZHUv&ntb=1 (Harvard University) https://revelle.ucsd.edu/about/roger-revelle.html (Roger Revelle) – https://fellowshipapp.aaas.org/app/main/page/about-stpf (AAAS) https://www.aei.org/ (American Enterprise Institute) https://www.amazon.com/Men-Without-Work-Americas-Invisible/dp/1599474697/ref=sr_1_1?adgrpid=1331509147128689&hvadid=83219392903661&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=90931&hvnetw=o&hvqmt=e&hvtargid=kwd-83219671600453%3Aloc-190&hydadcr=22625_10475310&keywords=men+without+work+america%27s+invisible+crisis&qid=1665065972&qu=eyJxc2MiOiIwLjAwIiwicXNhIjoiMC4wMCIsInFzcCI6IjAuMDAifQ%3D%3D&sr=8-1 (Men Without Work: America’s Invisible Crisis) https://www.aei.org/research-products/book/men-without-work-2/ (Men Without Work: Post-Pandemic Edition) https://www.bls.gov/cps/definitions.htm#nilf (NILF (Not in Labor Force) Rate ) https://www.bls.gov/cps/definitions.htm#employed (BLS Definition of Employed - 1 hour per week) https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/marriage_rate_2018/marriage_rate_2018.pdf#:~:text=Marriage%20rates%20increased%20beginning%20in%201963%2C%20reaching%20a,2017%20at%20a%20range%20between%206.8%20and%207.0. (US Marriage Rates) https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/visualizations/time-series/demo/families-and-households/hh-1.pdf (US Family Structure 1965 to now) https://news.gallup.com/poll/200186/five-key-findings-religion.aspx#:~:text=The%205%25%20who%20identify%20with%20a%20non-Christian%20religion,2.%20The%20trend%20away%20from%20formal%20religion%20continues. (US Religiosity 1965 to now) https://www.congress.gov/bill/104th-congress/house-bill/3266 (1996 Welfare Reform) https://www.stitcher.com/show/banter-an-aei-podcast/episode/yuval-levin-on-american-institutions-87797963 (Yuval Levin on formative institutions) https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/06/disappearance-of-the-summer-job/529824/ (Decline of the Summer Job) https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/08/homo-economicus.asp (Homo Economicus)