Sentier researchers examined and compared wage and salary income per individual for college graduates as well as high school graduates in two different age cohorts, and found that while high school graduates overall saw their incomes drop by nine percent between 1996 and 2014, white male college graduates saw their incomes rise by 23 percent over the same period.Automation and the off-shoring of manufacturing jobs are largely responsible for the decline reported. It's something I call the "McDonaldization" of the workforce: a move to split-shift, part-time, low-skill, no-benefits work.
The result has been an increase in dysfunctional behaviors in this demographic, self-destructive behaviors which affected non-white males a generation earlier.
