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I posted separately, but your graph is for everyone while the article is about idle men, which is on clear downward trend over decades.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS11300001 (Men)

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS11300002 (Women)

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS11300025 (Men, 20+)

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS11300026 (Women, 20+)

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very interesting data! It would be even better if we could see the "Active population"(18 to 65) Looking at the 20+ charts:

Back in the 50s, only ~30% of women used to work. Since 1950 it now went up by 27 points. (31% -> 58%). In the meantime men employment went down of 17 points (88% -> 71%).

So overall for the population, we went to 59.5% ((88+31)/2) of the population working (Assuming as many men as women) to 64.5%((71+58)/2) of the population working. Where is the 'quiet catastrophe'?

Compared to 1950, 5% more of the current population is now working. Shouldn't the author feel happy about the gain of "meaning, self-esteem and masculinity" of those 5%?

Oh I stand corrected that the BLS doesn’t break that out!

Here’s a comparison of men (in black) vs. women (in blue). Very interesting.

https://www.numer.al/us_bls_data/figures/labor-force-partici...

Is there any special function your website can do that FRED can't? I'm pretty sure all BLS data ends up in FRED.

If you’re trying to make a point about a change over a specific period, you can select a range and the selection gets appended by JS to the URL, such that if you send someone else the link they’ll see exactly the selection you made. It’s also possible to follow figures and be updated when they change. But also interesting things become possible across datasets. For instance, it becomes possible to mash up absolute job numbers from the BLS with population estimates from the Census and get accurate per-capita figures, that stay current when either the BLS or the Census publish new numbers.

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