There are two big stories from the boy troubles that remain unreported…
Monday, October 26th, 2009
The first is what’s happening with the sons of blue-collar workers, a topic that’s front and center in England but nonexistent here. The second is disconnected youth, those not in school or the workplace. The New York Times makes a contribution to this story today. They are mostly boys.
There are two reasons for the omission. First, the stories are hard to match with good numbers. There are only rough estimates. By contrast, the college imbalances come with hard numbers. Second, these stories are less appealing to editors who hesitate to run stories that don’t connect to the middle class readers who buy their products.
The recession, however, is making both these issues harder to ignore.
