{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/must-read/the-vanishing-male-worker-how-america-fell-behind", "The Vanishing Male Worker: How America Fell Behind", "2014-12-12", "2014", "2014-12", "Independent", "House", "VT", "Bernard Sanders", "S000033", "www.sanders.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "The Vanishing Male Worker: How America Fell Behind\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t By:\u00a0 Binyamin Appelbaum \n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\tFriday, December 12, 2014\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\tANNAPOLIS, Md. \u2014 Frank Walsh still pays dues to the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, but more than four years have passed since his name was called at the union hall where the few available jobs are distributed. Mr. Walsh, his wife and two children live on her part-time income and a small inheritance from his mother, which is running out.\r\nSitting in the food court at a mall near his Maryland home, he sees that some of the restaurants are hiring. He says he can\u2019t wait much longer to find a job. But he\u2019s not ready yet.\r\n\u201cI\u2019d work for them, but they\u2019re only willing to pay $10 an hour,\u201d he said, pointing at a Chick-fil-A that probably pays most of its workers less than that. \u201cI\u2019m 49 with two kids \u2014 $10 just isn\u2019t going to cut it.\u201d\r\nWorking, in America, is in decline. The share of prime-age men \u2014 those 25 to 54 years old \u2014 who are not working has more than tripled since the late 1960s, to 16 percent. More recently, since the turn of the century, the share of women without paying jobs has been rising, too. The United States, which had one of the highest employment rates among developed nations as recently as 2000, has fallen toward the bottom of the list.\r\nContinue reading here.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/must-read/the-vanishing-male-worker-how-america-fell-behind"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.74982107616961, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}