re: Freakonomics podcast on marriage and income

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My initial response was to someone earlier in the thread (not sure if it was you) who definitively declared it "wasn't a race issue". This is incorrect, as there is clearly a racial component involved that drives the changing numbers.

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If a racial component exist, it isn't the one you think it is. Since 2000, white non-Hispanics and Asian or Pacific Islanders are the only two races to increase their unwed birth rates, 13.6% and 3.8% respectively. The unwed birth rate for blacks and Hispanics has come down significantly, -12.8% and -21.4% respectively.

Hell, since 1990, non-Hispanic white unwed birth rates have climbed 30.4% while black unwed birth rates have decreased 32.0%.