Please, tell me again that the plight of young American men is overstated.

I really want to see the "men are playing the victim" crowd explain this one.

For every 100 jobs created in the last year, 94 went to women and 6 went to men.

This lines up with previous data and explicitly discriminatory trends and policies we've discussed (here and here for example), and it also helps explain why young men are turning "radical."

Here's Oregon Public Broadcasting with more on these numbers:

That parity masks the significant gains women have made in the labor market recently. Of the 369,000 jobs the Labor Department says were created since the start of Trump's second term, nearly all — 348,000 of them — went to women, with only 21,000 going to men. That's nearly 17 times as many jobs filled by women as by men.

The lopsidedness was driven by huge growth in health care, where women hold nearly 80% of jobs. Over the past 12 months, health care alone added 390,000 jobs, more than in the economy overall, making up for job losses elsewhere.

"If we want to see job growth that's as robust for men as it is for women, we're going to have to see men embracing those kinds of jobs," says Stevenson.

We've gone from "we need more women in male dominated fields" to "men need to become nurses if they want to be hired."

Thanks to our aging population, healthcare is nearly the only industry that is growing. It, along with recreational vehicles and a few other categories enjoyed by wealthy senior citizens, are the only things keeping the entire economy afloat (AKA we don't have a real economy).

Oh, did I mention how foreigners factor into this?

The Trump Administration is trying to solve this by pushing for immigration reform and manufacturing to return to the United States, but with tariffs and deportations being attacked by both sides of the aisle at every turn, very little progress has been made.

When manufacturers added 15,000 jobs in March, the White House called it proof that 'the best days for American workers, manufacturers, and families are still ahead,' despite the fact that the sector is still down 82,000 jobs from when Trump took office.

'We have seen a year of a president absolutely fixated [on] growing the manufacturing sector,' Stevenson says. 'There's not enough of those jobs for men as a whole to thrive.'

The economy is no longer set up to help men start careers and thrive. The same number of college-educated men without jobs now equals those with jobs. A third of American men have stopped looking for jobs altogether.

But it's not just a happenstance of circumstances. This was intentional. Our system is doing what it was built to do 👇

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