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Podcast: Heard Tell
Episode: Good Talks: The Missing White Non-College Educated Males From Workforce, Welfare Reform, & more w/ Brent Orrell
Description: On this Heard Tell Good Talks, our guest Brent Orrell of the American Enterprise Institute has been researching and writing about the missing male demographic from the workforce. Specifically, non-college educated white men are showing as a trend in missing from the workforce, and increasingly on social assistance. Brent digs into the why, what the data says, and what the social and cultural factors and implications are. Also, Brent compares/contrasts how men on social assistance are treated much differently than the "welfare queens" rhetoric of the 90's welfare reform, and better terminology and ways to talk about the...