{"id":63172,"date":"2017-09-07T12:29:42","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T16:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=63172"},"modified":"2017-09-07T18:04:26","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T22:04:26","slug":"wsj-opioid-epidemic-may-be-keeping-prime-age-americans-out-of-the-workforce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=63172","title":{"rendered":"(WSJ) Opioid Epidemic May Be Keeping Prime-Age Americans Out of the Workforce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New research suggests a significant portion of the post-1990s decline in labor-force participation among Americans in their prime working years could be linked to\u00a0<a class=\"icon none\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/opioid-addiction-diagnoses-up-nearly-500-in-past-seven-years-study-shows-1498737603\">the opioid epidemic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Conducted by\u00a0<a class=\"icon none\" href=\"https:\/\/krueger.princeton.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Princeton University economist Alan Krueger<\/a>,\u00a0<a class=\"icon none\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/bpea-articles\/where-have-all-the-workers-gone-an-inquiry-into-the-decline-of-the-u-s-labor-force-participation-rate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the study found<\/a>\u00a0that a national increase in opioid painkiller prescriptions between 1999 and 2015 may have accounted for about 20% of the decline in workforce participation among men ages 25 to 54, and roughly 25% of the drop in prime-age female workforce participation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe opioid epidemic and labor-force participation are now intertwined,\u201d Mr. Krueger said. \u201cIf we are to bring a large number of people back into the labor force who have left the labor force, I think it\u2019s important that we take serious steps to address the opioid crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/opioid-epidemic-may-be-keeping-prime-age-americans-out-of-the-workforce-1504756860\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research suggests a significant portion of the post-1990s decline in labor-force participation among Americans in their prime working years could be linked to\u00a0the opioid epidemic. Conducted by\u00a0Princeton University economist Alan Krueger,\u00a0the study found\u00a0that a national increase in opioid painkiller<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=63172\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,99,149,168,104,597,177,34,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-drugsdrug-addiction","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-pastoral-theology","category-theology","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63172"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63174,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63172\/revisions\/63174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}