>The gold standard metric is labor participation rate of white men over 20
"gold standard"... according to whom? Economists? Internet commentators? White nationalists?
Economists, of course - the confounder of discrimination is absent here. Recall: if something appears weird in the US, it's usually due to slavery.
Economists, of course - the confounder of discrimination is absent here. Recall: if something appears weird in the US, it's usually due to slavery.