More Americans Than Ever Are Staying Single – Is Marriage In Crisis?

In The Young Turks on YouTube by Hlarson1 Comment

 

“Unmarried American adults outnumber their married counterparts for the first time since the federal government began tracking that data in 1976, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

“There were 124.6 million single Americans in August — accounting for 50.2 percent of the 16-and-over US population, the BLS data showed.

“Eric Klinenberg, an NYU sociology professor who tracks marriage trends, predicts the unmarrieds will probably be edging their married peers by this small margin for the foreseeable future.” *

In this clip, The Young Turks’ Cenk Uygur (http://twitter.com/cenkuygur) and Ana Kasparian (http://twitter.com/anakasparian) break down the story.

* For more on this story, read the NY Post article here: http://nypost.com/2014/09/09/single-adults-now-outnumber-married-adults/

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