Matt Averett

@matthewaverett.bsky.social

Architectural historian at Creighton University. St. Louis Cardinals fan. Aura farmer.

New research shows that marriage is more common among people with than without college degrees. But rather than use those findings to argue for investment in higher education, Fortune is blaming college-educated women for rejecting low-earning men w/o college degrees. fortune.com/2026/07/26/c...

College women are snapping up the highest-earning men without college degrees, leaving the rest further behind | Fortune

A new NBER study finds that as college men grow scarce, college-educated women marry high-earning men without degrees—leaving non-college women with a shrinking, poorer pool of potential husbands

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"A big problem for trust in government is that high-quality governance is usually invisible. When the various agencies designed to protect the American people from all manner of threats are working perfectly, most potential disasters are detected and prevented before they happen."

The American Prospect@prospect.org · 3w ago

One hopes that the voting public is learning a hard—or I should say watery—lesson about how important good government is. prospect.org?p=141052

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WOW -- Danish reporter *goes there* with Rutte "You sit next to Trump when he talks about conquering Greenland, lashes out at allies like Spain -- things it doesn't seem like the old Mark Rutte would approve of. Does this have any affect on your self-respect when you sit there and say nothing?"