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Women are getting most of the new jobs. What's going on with men?


By Andrea Hsu Friday, April 10, 2026 • 5:01 AM EDT In December 2016, as Donald Trump was headed to the White House for the first time, Betsey Stevenson offered the incoming president some economic advice. Stevenson, a professor of public policy and economics at the University of Michigan, argued in an op-ed that it would be a disservice to encourage men "to cling to work that isn't coming back." She cited Trump's promise to bring an iPhone factory to the U.S.

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