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Unemployment and Poverty in Rural America: The Life and Hillbilly Culture of the Poor Majority
- Narrated by: Monica Jaye
- Length: 39 mins
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In the recent years, people have studied the unusual increase in the number of prime-aged men who are unemployed. According to Nicholas Eberstadt, a political economist who holds the Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute, the drop of the share of prime-aged men in the labor market in other prosperous democracies has never been as severe as it is in the United States.