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00:05:21.200It says, a new analysis argues that government welfare policies encourage able-bodied men to opt out of the labor force.
00:05:27.920Many point to weak wage growth, technological change, or international trade as potential explanations for the low labor force participation rate
00:05:35.000among young men, which has dropped from 97% in 1955 to 89% in 2020.
00:05:40.840However, Republicans on the Joint Economic Committee argue in their Reconnecting Americans to Benefits of Work report
00:05:46.200that a significant share of the young men who receive handouts from the government are voluntarily disconnected from work.
00:05:51.800It says, only 12% of inactive, prime-age, able-bodied men said they wanted a job or were open to work.
00:05:59.580Only 12% among men who are inactive for reasons other than disability, retirement, education, or homemaking.
00:06:06.02041% personally receive government assistance.
00:06:08.760One key piece of evidence that suggests labor force trends are driven largely by workers, not employers,
00:06:12.640is that the decline in prime-age labor force participation has been mostly voluntary, as told by the men themselves.
00:06:18.940Three out of four disconnected men say they do not want a job.
00:08:05.500It's that working to provide for yourself and your family, if you have one, is what you do when you have intention and purpose in your life.
00:08:13.620If you have goals, if you have ambition, you would rather get a job, even a menial job,
00:08:18.600and then get at least one foot on at least the first rung of the ladder.
00:08:23.560There's also value in work for its own sake.