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daniel September 30, 2017 Collapse of Marriage, How Ideology Stops us from Discussing the Marriage Divide, Marriage Crisis, Marriage Divide, The Mystery of America’s Marriage Crisis, Why Income Inequality and the Marriage Divide will Get Worse, Why nobody wants to talk about the Collapse of Marriage

The Mystery of America’s Marriage Crisis

Only 26% of poor adults between 18 and 55; and 39% of working-class adults in the same age group, were married according to data compiled by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and Opportunity America. That marks a dramatic cultural shift, because as recently as 1990; 51% of poor adults and 57% of working-class adults were married, New York Times Upshot Writer Claire Cain Miller noted.