Men ages 23 to 30 are discovering that a bachelor’s degree doesn’t offer the same protection from unemployment that it used to.

Amid a wider slowdown in hiring, the unemployment rate for men ages 23 to 30 with bachelor’s degrees has jumped in recent months to 6% — compared with 3.5% for young women with the same level of education, according to data analyzed by NBC News.

Now, young men with bachelor’s degrees are slightly likelier to be unemployed than young men with just high school diplomas, the analysis found. That’s a recent reversal after decades when young men with bachelor’s degrees had an advantage in the labor market, economists said.

Young women haven’t experienced the same trend; they are still significantly likelier to be employed if they have bachelor’s degrees.

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      Are you implying young women are employed because they have identified class-based oppression?

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            People in general are uneducated about class dynamics and the reasons behind employment relations and unemployment. This means that, in particular, young men see statistics like this and come to incel conclusions.

            These class dynamics are obscured intentionally by articles like this.

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                I haven’t, and didn’t imply such. It’s a general observation about how the statistics referenced exist in a poisoned public discourse.

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                  When I asked how your first response was relevant, you replied that “young men see statistics like this and come to incel conclusions.” If you aren’t actually seeing people come to that conclusion then your comments weren’t relevant.

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                    You do know I was making a top level comment in response to OP right? The world has a toxic masculinity problem that is underlined by the shallow analysis of the article and headline.

                    It’s not a comment about any particular person in this post commentary, unless they are taking it personally somehow. Your ‘point of order’ is strange. Why do you have a bee in your bonnet?