Authors
Scott Winship
Publication date
2021/10/27
Publisher
< bound method Organization. get_name_with_acronym of< Organization: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research>>
Description
Why are fewer prime-age Americans in the workforce? Many popular explanations attribute Americans’ declining labor force participation to declining wages, technological change, and international trade. A new report from Joint Economic Committee Republicans’ Social Capital Project finds that these forces cannot fully explain increasing inactivity among able-bodied prime-age Americans. Instead, many would-be workers …
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