Report: There's No Work for Men of Working Age in Suffolk County

Written by Tom Edathikunnel

The number of men in their prime working years who are not non-employed has tripled in the United States since 1968, according to an interactive study by The New York Times.

In Suffolk County, 15 percent of prime age men are without work.

Nationwide, the Times reports that 16 percent of men ages 25-54 are out of work. That’s either because they’re officially unemployed or outside the labor force, meaning they’re disabled, retired, in school or taking care of a family.

The rate isn’t so high everywhere. Employment rates among men in some places — the affluent areas of Manhattan, for example — approach 90 percent, approaching the rates of the worker friendly 1950s and 1960s.

The interactive data found in the Times, collected by the American Community Survey from 2009-2013 estimates, allows readers to examine non-employment rates in every census county across the country.

Click here to see the rates of every county in the country

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