Reihan Salam writes for
Reuters about the
challenges facing people who aspire to be married. I find these two quotes particularly meaningful:
The challenges facing single mothers, many of whom aspire to marry yet find that the supply of reliable men capable of finding remunerative work is severely limited.
The United States outsourced most of the low-skilled, routine jobs because they could be done more cheaply overseas. We did this without asking ourselves how we would now employ our citizens who once did those jobs. As a result, we find:
The challenges facing the less educated and even moderately educated men who have seen their economic prospects deteriorate and who have thus become less marriageable than they might have been a generation ago.
