“Today, one in six American men between the ages of 25 and 54 are unemployed or out of the workforce altogether: about 10 million men.”
That number has more than doubled since the 1970s. Among white men in the bottom 30 percent, incarceration quintupled while it stayed flat for the top 20 percent. Henderson blames collapsing expectations. The jobs that used to set those expectations left first, and nobody replaced them.