our girls. this week i found cause to worry about young men. this headline from the hill caught my eye. most young men are single, most young women are not. the story reported that as of 2022, pew research center found 30% of u.s. adults are neither married, living with a partner, nor engaged in a committed relationship. nearly half of all young adults are single. look at these numbers. 34% of women, nice as many. i pulled the story and red with interest. since 2019. the share of men who say they re looking for dates or a relationship has declined from 61% to 50%. in 2018, 28% of men ages 18 to 30 reported they had no sex in the past year, compared with 18% of women of that age. the report said men in their 20s are more likely than women in their 20s to be romantically unsolved, sexually dormant, friendless and lonely. they stand at the vanguardemic sexuality and relationships that afflicts all of young america. among the causes, among the factors, a reliance on social media
and emotionally viable men. but the middle class isn t an accident. unless you invest, it doesn t happen, eisenhower decided to invest $500 million in a national highway project that created tons of jobs. and, by the way, the tax rate was 91%. we raised money and rede redistributed it in social programs that made people economically viable. and then you toss in the influence of social media and how relationships today don t come from, in our era, happenstance and mingling. they come from swiping. and that further accelerates this issue. am i right? oh, it s been the chaser to it. to have an honest conversation about this, we have to be honest. and that is that men and women have different mating criteria. one quarter of men saying economic viability is a key criteria in a mate, three-quarters of women say that is important.