Companies say qualified workers aren't out there ... but even college grads can't find work 
Laura Clawson at Daily Kos, as reblogged by cartonplanet, writes about how a smaller percentage of working-age men are working today than in past decades and how mens wages are down across a variety of demographics. Clawson concludes,
If it’s a skills gap, wouldn’t we expect to see some group of people doing better, in the aggregate, than in the past?
Um … Clawson? Women are people too. Look at the percent of workforce participation, by gender from the Bureau of Labor Statistics:
While it’s clearly true that workforce participation is down over the past few years, that many-decade trend of people leaving the workforce only applies to male people. Workforce participation overall is much higher than it was in the ’70s. If more single-income families have women as primary earners, it’s really not a bad thing.
