105.8 Million Aren’t Working

Kayal and Company · Jul 23, 2026 · 42m

We return with final bike-ride preparations and a push to take the Kayal and Company team past $35,000 for Families Behind the Badge. From there, we examine the record 105.8 million Americans who are outside the labor force, including retirees, students, discouraged workers and people dealing with long-term illness. We focus on prime-age men leaving work, the baby-boomer retirement wave and the difference between people who have earned retirement and people who have stopped trying. The work discussion expands into a survey showing that employees and managers fake productivity, along with a…