The economic challenges facing men without college degrees

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  NPR.

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  This is Ian Decatur from Planet Money.

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  I'm Darian Woods.

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  It's the season of giving.

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  So today we are giving you an extra episode to enjoy.

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  It starts with a question about men and money.

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  Now over the last several decades, have men been earning more now than they used to.

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  Well, there are no simple answers in social science or economics.

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  So it's just sometimes feel it's a bit like, you know,

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  the Groucho Marx quote about, well, these are my principles.

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  If you don't like them, I have others.

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  Richard Reeves is president of the American Institute for Boys and Men.

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  And Richard says to answer this question about the change in men's wages depends on the answer to other questions,

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  like what span of years have been compared and what ages are you looking at?

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  Over the age of 16, prime age men?

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  which distressingly is defined as 25 to 54.

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  How old are you?

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  I'm 55.

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  Oh, no.

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  You just left prime.

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