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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"College." What about specific majors?  Men are still overrepresented in the hard stuff, girls in the fluff stuff "studies" etc.  That's what "college"
has become today.  [b]Relax, men do just fine[/b].[/quote]
+1 seriously.  Do they need a cookie and a hug?

-mom of DD and DS who is doing just fine.[/quote]

Maybe your DS is ok but not every other young man is "doing just fine." Google deaths of despair in Appalachia or just look at what's happening right here in DC. [/quote]

+1 "My kid is fine," therefore there is not problem? There fore everyone else must be doing something wrong? Yikes.[/quote]
No, not everyone is doing fine, but it's not like they don't have any opportunities. They just choose not to take them. What happened to personal responsibility?

In any case, 1/3 of working age men aren't in the workforce for various reasons: homeless, working under the table; trading bitcoin; retired early.  They made their choices.  Yes, it is a choice.  You may not like the choices, but you do have choices.

It's a lot easier for white men to get a job than black men, that's for sure.  [/quote]

Because white men are also more likely to have some college.

I find it interesting how people ignore and keep ignoring that one major reason for this disparity is black men. This was talked about for a few pages earlier in the thread. We do have a problem with poorer black men not getting established enough in life. [/quote]

From the article: 
"Enrollment rates for poor and working-class white men are lower than those of young Black, Latino and Asian men from the same economic backgrounds, according to an analysis of census data by the Pell Institute for the Journal." 
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