MORE ON THE “MANCESSION:” Labor Force Participation Rate of 25 to 54 Age Men at Record Low. “The collapse in the labor force participation rate has been one of the key stories of the great recession. The participation rate is the percentage of the working age population in the labor force. . . . However one of the key trends has been the decline in the participation rate of men – and that is continuing.”

Meanwhile, here’s how the Obama Administration’s politics contributed.

UPDATE: Reader Aaron Jones emails:

Obama could have told the feminists to ‘shove it’ regarding the burly-man focus of the stimulus. What’s NOW gonna do? Run to the press? What’s the press gonna do? Run a story tarnishing the One?

That’s why Obama is far worse than anyone can imagine. He’s thin skinned and not even pragmatic. He’d risk the ‘man’ vote and the consequences in the mid-terms to please a insignificant special interest group and instead, destroy a recoverable sector of the US economy.

Good point.