The Percentage Of Working Age Men That Do Not Have A Job Is Similar To The Great DepressionBy Michael Snyder According to NPR, nearly 100 percent of men between the ages of 25 and 54 worked in the 1960s. In those days, just about any dependable, hard-working American man could get hired almost immediately. The economy was growing and the demand for labor was seemingly insatiable. But today, one out of every six men in their prime working years does not have a job One in six prime-age guys has no job; its kind of worse than it was in the depression in 1940, says Nicholas Eberstadt, an economic and demographic researcher at American Enterprise Institute who wrote the book Men Without Work: Americas Invisible Crisis. He says these men arent even counted among the jobless, because they arent seeking work. So why is this happening? NPR (@NPR) September 7, 2016 If you look at the inactivity rate for men in the 25 to 54 age bracket, it was sitting at just 8.1 percent in January 2000. In January 2008, right at the beginning of the last recession, it was sitting at 9.2 percent, and by the end of the recession it had risen to 10.3 percent. Today, it is sitting at 11.5 percent. Remember, these are men that dont even count toward the official unemployment rate. They are not working, but they are not considered to be looking for work either. So what are these men doing? You may be tempted to think that many of them have decided to stay home and raise the kids as their wives go off to work. But according to NPR, that is not what is happening What the missing men arent doing in large numbers is staying home to take care of family. Forty percent of nonworking women are primary caregivers; thats true of only 5 percent of men out of the workforce. We do have the largest prison population in the entire world by far, and without a doubt that does play a role in these numbers. However, a far bigger factor is the millions of men that have become content being dependents of the federal government. More than 100 million Americans receive money from the government each month, and a lot of people (both men and women) have found that it is just easier to sit back and collect government checks than it is to go out and try to work hard for a living. But of course the number one factor is the lack of jobs available. I personally know people that have been looking for work in their fields for years and have not been able to get hired. We have a major employment crisis in this nation, and it is only going to get worse in the years ahead as we continue to lose jobs to technology and millions more good jobs get shipped overseas. And a lot of the jobs that have been created during the Obama administration have been very low quality jobs. Since December 2014, we have gained about half a million jobs for waiters and bartenders, but meanwhile we have actually lost good paying manufacturing jobs. If we continue down this road, the middle class will continue to shrink. In addition to everything that I have just shared, here are some other facts that are pertinent to this discussion The economy is far weaker than you are being told, the employment crisis is far worse than you are being told, and as I mentioned yesterday, the stage is clearly set for a new financial crisis of epic proportions. And if we are going to see markets crash, this time of the year is a good time for it. In fact, CNBC says that history tells us that this is the worst period of the year for stocks The worst period of the year for stocks has just begun at least based on market history. Over the entire 120-year history of the Dow Jones industrial average, Sept. 6 to Oct. 29 tends to be the worst period for the market. And more specifically, the last few weeks of September have been an especially bad time. Someday when people look back at this time in history, they will not be surprised by how horrific the coming collapse will be. The truth is that anyone with a lick of common sense can see that the greatest debt bubble in the history of the world is going to end badly. No, what is going to amaze them is that the system was able to hold together as long as it did. It truly is incredible that the debt-based, fiat currency Ponzi scheme that the central banks of the world have been desperately trying to prop up has been able to keep chugging along all the way to the middle of 2016. How much longer can they keep the magic going? I dont know, but history tells us that time is not on their side Michael Snyder is a writer, speaker and activist who writes and edits his own blogs The American Dream and Economic Collapse Blog. Follow him on Twitter here. The unFed is part of the judas crowd, you know the ones that murdered Jesus. 