Jonah:
Your reader asks:
“The U.S. has an employment rate that is so low it’s approaching full employment. If we suddenly eliminate 10+ million workers from the workforce, where are the replacements going to come from?”
Well, perhaps from here:
“The share of young black men without jobs has climbed relentlessly, with only a slight pause during the economic peak of the late 1990’s. In 2000, 65 percent of black male high school dropouts in their 20’s were jobless — that is, unable to find work, not seeking it or incarcerated. By 2004, the share had grown to 72 percent, compared with 34 percent of white and 19 percent of Hispanic dropouts. Even when high school graduates were included, half of black men in their 20’s were jobless in 2004, up from 46 percent in 2000.”