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Giving birth to a baby without being married is a religious point of view.

I am supposed to believe that a "sociology professor at Princeton, and Kefalas, a sociology professor at St. Joseph’s University" can somehow convince me that he knows what a "low-income woman" thinks or does in her life. I've lived around "low-income women" my whole life and I haven't figured it out.

"The conventional view is that a lack of money leads to out-of-wedlock births."

Whose conventional view? This is not the view of poor people.

"Today, one in six American men between the ages of 25 and 54 are unemployed or out of the workforce altogether: about 10 million men.", the book this came from was written by a conservative scientist from Iowa. I tried to check some of the stats and every one of them seem to be wrong.

This link outright proves there are not 10 million men unemployed in America. https://www.statista.com/statistics/193244/unemployment-leve... So who's statistics are right?

This is a horrible article that seems to do nothing by try and place blame rather than provide a solution to a problem that does not exist. I will go as far as to say this article is quite racist. The article says "American" men but then only targets white American men in their statistics. Which is it, American men or white American men?

He says at the beginning of the article he was one of America's "lost boys" which already tells me he has no idea what it means to actually be lost or poor. His other blog posts reveal his religious rhetoric. Remember when Cambridge produced leaders and not followers?

This is a poorly written article based on personal views and statistics that don't even target the proper demographics of the content of the article. Unbelievable.




> This link outright proves there are not 10 million men unemployed in America. https://www.statista.com/statistics/193244/unemployment-leve... So who's statistics are right?

Both of them are right, this is a common confusion in unemployment statistics. Unemployment as a technical term refers to people who both don't have a job and are "in the workforce", meaning they gave the right answers for the survey taker to conclude they're looking for a job. People who aren't trying to find a job are "out of the workforce" but not "unemployed".


They aren’t in U-3 (the most commonly cited figure), but might be in U-4, U-5, or U-6 (or might be in school, retired, permanently disabled, or something else that most people wouldn’t think of as “unemployed”).

https://www.stlouisfed.org/open-vault/2018/june/unemployment...




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