Is marriage important to Democrats? There is a marriage deficit in the USA and it is a Democratic priority.
This graph is from an article in The Atlantic on October 30, 2013 entitled, "If you want to talk about economic inequality in matrimony, don't just look at the weddings. Look at the divorces." (click here).
September 26, 2014
By Gene Demby
...The biggest takeaways (click here) from a new study on marriage by the Pew Research Center (click here) are these: Fewer Americans who are older than 25 are married than ever before, and by the time they're middle-aged, a record 25 percent will have never tied the knot.That might not be too much of a surprise, since marriage rates have been sliding for decades....
The division of wealth in the USA effects every decision our people are making, including, "Can I afford to get married?" There is income insecurity. Jobs don't provide benefits the way they once did.
There is a Democratic agenda within all this. Healthcare, Minimum Wage, rate of poverty, affordable education from Pre-K to Post Grad. There are all important agenda items for Democrats. Talk about them a lot. Let people know they have to vote to protect the measures they have now and to continue to protect them in the future.
Talk about children as if they were your own and provide insight to generations of young adults that are adjusting to the idea of being single and finding satisfactions in life that were once the paradigm of couples.
There was a time in the USA when income to the Middle Class was important. There was a time when a graduate from High School could make a living wage if they didn't go to college. But, all that is gone now. Higher education is absolutely a demand if a person wants to move out of poverty. The USA has become the breeding ground of grudges between the wealthy and those that are not wealthy.
September 28, 2014
By Elisabeth Weiser
Secret tapes made by a banking investigator (click here) examining Goldman Sachs show a culture of deference and risk aversion in which regulators were afraid to anger the very financial institutions they were supposed to be overseeing.
The 46 hours of recordings of meetings and conversations come from Carmen Segarra, a Harvard-trained lawyer who was hired in 2011 by the New York Federal Reserve as part of a team overhauling how the banking system was regulated after the 2008 financial crisis.
Segarra found a culture in which regulators were cozy with the banks they worked with and where managers were loath to say or do anything that might upset them....
