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If you’re broke and uneducated, here’s more good news: Your chances of getting married aren’t as good as your rich, learned counterparts.
According to a new study conducted by the Pew Research Center in conjunction with Time magazine, people of low economic status greatly value being financially stable before getting married, but that might never happen. The study used demographic data from the Census and a representative sample of 2,692 adults and determined that people with a college education are now 16 percent more likely to be married than people without one. In 1960 the likelihood was only separated by 4 percentage points.
The good news if you’re single is that nearly 40 percent of Americans think marriage is becoming obsolete (so get off our case, MOM), and in the past 50 years the number of married couples has dropped 20 percent (again, MOM!), so you might be less of a social pariah than you think.
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