America’s politicians have long worried about the rising share of men out of work. More on the sidelines means slower economic growth, heftier benefit payments and a frailer social fabric. During the ...

Here’s a telling about-face: since the early 2000s, labor force participation in the U.S. by young men has declined more steeply than almost any other group. It’s no coincidence it’s a multi-decade ...

Hello and welcome to Working It. We held our first staff “admin night” at the FT this week, adopting the Gen Z trend of getting together with friends to sort out paperwork and life administration. The ...

Men, by contrast, are more likely to work in private sector jobs, where an increase in employers’ National Insurance contributions and inflation-busting minimum wage rises have hit hard. It means ...

President Trump wants to get America’s vast army of “dropout” men back into the workforce. Attention to this problem is long overdue. Nearly 7 million men in the prime of life — over a tenth of the 25 ...