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The Vanishing Male Worker: How America Fell Behind

American Men Are Struggling To Find Work
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In this Oct. 20, 2014 photo, unemployed coal miner Eddie Jones looks for jobs on a computer at the Kentucky Career Center in Harlan, Ky. With no computer at home, he goes to the employment office two or three times a week to see what's available. In the meantime, Jones has been making do with odd jobs, painting, digging ditches, mowing grass. "Just something to pick up 40 or 50 bucks to pay a water bill," he says. Jones was on unemployment for 26 weeks. He is angry that Congress failed to pass an extension. "They've bailed out every entity in the country," he says. "The banking industry. The airline industry. The car industry. Everybody but the American worker." (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Frank Walsh still pays dues to the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, but more than four years have passed since his name was called at the union hall where the few available jobs are distributed. Mr. Walsh, his wife and two children live on her part-time income and a small inheritance from his mother, which is running out.

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