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The Other Wage Gap?

One of our fastest-growing demographics has a fast-shrinking economic outlook.
As it has for many years in America, a person’s marital status in America coincides directly with their economic status. But the difference between the wealth of a married person and the wealth of an unmarried person is only growing — a gap growing at the same time the percentage of un- and never-married people is rising, too. Data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, a nationally

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This story is from Common Good issue 10.
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