{"id":1702620,"date":"2022-10-19T15:47:56","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T19:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1702620"},"modified":"2022-10-19T16:12:34","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T20:12:34","slug":"bed-it-all-up-mike-rowe-explains-why-7-million-able-bodied-men-arent-looking-for-work-and-its-not-a-skills-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bed-it-all-up-mike-rowe-explains-why-7-million-able-bodied-men-arent-looking-for-work-and-its-not-a-skills-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018B****ed It All Up\u2019: Mike Rowe Explains Why 7 Million Able-Bodied Men Aren\u2019t Looking For Work, And It\u2019s Not \u2018A Skills Gap\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">44<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbed-it-all-up-mike-rowe-explains-why-7-million-able-bodied-men-arent-looking-for-work-and-its-not-a-skills-gap%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1702620&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cDirty Jobs\u201d host Mike Rowe explained to Megyn Kelly that there\u2019s \u201c7 million able-bodied men\u201d who aren\u2019t looking for work and he\u2019s said it\u2019s not a \u201cskills gap\u201d but instead a \u201cwill gap\u201d as too many appear to be addicted to their screens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During his recent appearance on Sirius XM\u2019s \u201cThe Megyn Kelly Show\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ftCPAnHPjZE\">podcast<\/a>, the host asked <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/mike-rowe\">Rowe<\/a>\u00a0what he thought was the reason why millions of men in America between the ages of 25-54 aren\u2019t only unemployed, but aren\u2019t even looking for a job. The TV host said that there isn\u2019t just one reason but several, as he listed what he believes has led to this \u201clopsided\u201d workforce in America, calling it \u201ctroubling.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rowe said to him it\u2019s not a matter of \u201clabor disputes\u201d when it comes to the lack of blue-collar workers but a myriad of things starting with removing shop class in the 70s and 80s from high school. He explained, \u201cIt\u2019s not a coincidence today that those vocations are the very jobs currently lacking in the market.\u201d Combine that with the push around the same time to get people to go get higher education, which he said \u201cwe b****ed it all up.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--nextpage-->\n\n\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Obsession with College and Alarming Number of Young Men Not Working, with Mike Rowe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ftCPAnHPjZE\" width=\"680\" height=\"382\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTo talk about the existence of 11 million jobs that virtually nobody wants juxtaposed with 7 million able-bodied men between the ages of 25-54 who are not only not working, that\u2019s not the problem,\u201d Rowe said. \u201cThey are affirmatively not looking for jobs. So you push all of that together, it really does make for a very disappointing kind of bouillabaisse.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cCollege needed a PR campaign back in the 70s and 80s,\u201d he added. \u201cWe genuinely needed more people to go in pursuit of some of this thing we call higher education. But we b****ed it all up. We didn\u2019t just make the case for a four year school.\u00a0We made the case at the expense of all other forms of education.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSo, now there\u2019s stigmas and stereotypes \u2026 all kinds of bull crap that keeps people from pursuing many of these 11 million open jobs right now that paradoxically are the very jobs that make civilized life for the rest of us,\u201d the \u201cDirty Jobs\u201d host continued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/mike-rowe-says-feds-revoked-his-filming-permit-received-call-claiming-it-was-pulled-for-his-personal-politics\">Rowe<\/a> was pressed further by Kelly why those 7 million guys are \u201csitting on the sidelines,\u201d he said he\u2019s not so sure there\u2019s a \u201cskills gap\u201d anymore, but a \u201cwill gap.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhat the research indicates \u2026 a majority of that cohort of people we\u2019re describing right now, these men, spend between 2,000 to 2,400 hours a year on screens,\u201d the TV host shared. \u201cThat\u2019s what they\u2019re doing. Now the average work week extrapolated over a year is 2,080 hours. That\u2019s their full-time job. They\u2019re on their screens.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere\u2019s something else going on in the country,\u201d he added. \u201cIt\u2019s unpleasant. It\u2019s troubling. It\u2019s important. And we have to talk about it. We have to find a way to stop looking at the workforce in terms of people who are unemployed and see it instead through the lens of the numbers of people who have affirmatively chosen not to work.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDirty Jobs\u201d host Mike Rowe explained to Megyn Kelly that there\u2019s \u201c7 million able-bodied men\u201d who aren\u2019t looking for work and he\u2019s said it\u2019s not a \u201cskills gap\u201d but instead a \u201cwill gap\u201d as too many appear to be addicted to their screens. During his recent appearance on Sirius XM\u2019s \u201cThe Megyn Kelly Show\u201d podcast, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1890510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018B****ed It All Up\u2019: Mike Rowe Explains Why 7 Million Able-Bodied Men Aren\u2019t Looking For Work, And It\u2019s Not \u2018A Skills Gap\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1702620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018B****ed It All Up\u2019: Mike Rowe Explains Why 7 Million Able-Bodied Men Aren\u2019t Looking For Work, And It\u2019s Not \u2018A Skills Gap\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1702620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1890510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1702620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1702620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1702620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}