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22 percent of men without college don't have jobs. Here's why they're being left behind

  • Written by Erin Wolcott, Assistant Professor of Economics, Middlebury College
The job market is still tough for many Americans.AP Photo/Lynne Sladky

The unemployment rate has plunged to about the lowest level in half a century. Yet at least one group of Americans is being left behind: men who didn’t go to college.

Just 78 percent of men aged 25-54 who never went to college were employed in 2016, the latest year for...

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