1. New from @dcoxpolls: “Close to half (45%) of college-educated single women say their relationship status is largely due to an inability to find someone who meets their expectations.” @FamStudies@AEIifstudies.org/blog/the-colle…
2. For a majority of single, college-educated women these are dating liabilities:
Being
✔️ Republican
✔️ Not college-educated
✔️ Very religious
3. "College-educated women are far more likely than those without a degree to say a partner’s political views, personal habits, and current financial situation are important considerations." @dcoxpolls@FamStudiesifstudies.org/blog/the-colle…
4. and finally: "Half of college-educated women say that it would be impossible (21%) or very difficult (29%) to date someone who held a contrary opinion on the legality of abortion, vs. one-third of women without a degree." ifstudies.org/blog/the-colle…
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1. Been spotlighting👇🏼 *bad news* about Teens & Tech.
But now looks like *good news* coming from Utah.
UT is poised to take lead in treating “Big Tech like Big Tobacco” w/ raft of reform laws designed to help families navigate social media: deseret.com/2023/1/18/2355…@SpencerJCox
2. Utah legislature & @GovCox are responding to research like this report from @jean_twenge et al indicating that Big Tech & social media, in particular, are fueling depression, loneliness, and suicide among teens, esp teen girls: ifstudies.org/ifs-admin/reso…
3. “Of course, just as Big Tobacco had its defenders as debates about tobacco-cancer link first erupted, Big Tech has its defenders today, as well” arguing “correlation does not = causation.” But new studies from Germany, Italy & US suggest it’s causal: deseret.com/2023/1/18/2355…
1. A new analysis by the @AEI Housing Center reveals that one group outperforms all others when it comes to achieving homeownership: married couples. Moreover, this is true for both black and white Americans. ifstudies.org/blog/the-benef…
2. Across entire income spectrum, there is, on average, an approx 20-percentage-points boost in homeownership rates for black & white married households (compared to non-married households) when comparing those of similar income level: @AEI@FamStudiesifstudies.org/blog/the-benef…
3. “Marriage acts as backstop against a distressed home sale because presence of a potential 2 wage earner gives households an additional buffer to weather economic, family, health setbacks. Being able to weather life’s trials tribulations is key to generational wealth building.”
1. “Young and middle-aged American men are less likely to be working now than at any time in U.S. history.” @jtrothwell@Gallup has a new take on why this is happening. ifstudies.org/blog/scarred-b…
2. What @jtrothwell is trying to understand is this, the dramatic decline in male LFP since the 1960s:
3. He discounts theories from Left (trade/automation) and Right (Videogames/govt benefits) and fingers declining mental and physical health among men as a key factor: ifstudies.org/blog/scarred-b…@FamStudies
2. Here's a sampling from the @nytimes, Bloomberg @business, and @Forbes of the negative messaging regarding motherhood and marriage that we've been fed of late:
“Unemployment is associated with unhappiness [esp. for men], but being a stay-at-home parent (especially a stay-at-home mother) is not.” ifstudies.org/blog/are-stay-…