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Title: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: B E C K on Jan 19, 2010, 05:34:21 PM
Whatever.  :rawr:

From: http://money.cnn.com/2010/01/19/news/economy/married_women_salaries/

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By Julianne Pepitone, staff reporter
January 19, 2010: 3:03 PM ET

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The financial balance of powet in American marriages is shifting.

A Pew Research Center survey released Tuesday found that 22% of men made less money than their wives in 2007. By comparison, 4% of husbands earned less than their wives in 1970.

A shift in education patterns was a factor in the Pew report, which polled U.S.-born 30- to 44-year olds.

In 1970, 28% of husbands had more education than their wives. By 2007, that figure dropped to 19%.

Slightly more than half of spouses had the same education level in both 1970 and 2007, the most recent year for which data were available.

"For a long time, men didn't need education to make a decent wage -- they could go into manufacturing or other labor," said Jenny Wittner, associate director of the advocacy group Women Employed.

"Women had to get an education to keep up, and over the years that has started to translate into a difference in wages," Wittner added.

The report cited several societal and economic reasons for the jump. Marriage rates have declined across the board since 1970, and rates have gone down most sharply for the least educated.

The most educated are far more likely than those with less education to be married, and that gap that has widened since 1970. And since more education is linked to higher earnings, marriage especially boosts a household's spending powet.

Pew's report was compiled from data collected before the recession hit, and said that the downturn will only exacerbate those trends as men have especially felt the job crunch.

The report cited government data that said males accounted for about 75% of the 2008 decline in employment among "prime-working-age individuals." As a result, the percentage of women in the workforce continues to inch toward equilibrium, as women now comprise 47.4% of the total.

But Wittner noted "it may not stay a so-called 'men's recession' forever, and that shift will hurt households as the woman's income becomes more important."

Unmarried adults and the marriage advantage: For singles at all levels of education, men's incomes fared worse. In 2007, unmarried women had higher income than their 1970 counterparts. But single men without any college education saw their inflation-adjusted earnings decrease, and they did not have a wife's wages cushion the decline.

Similarly, single men who did not complete high school or who had only a high school diploma had lower household incomes in 2007 than their 1970 counterparts -- those with some college education saw income remain the same.

One exception to the marriage advantage: Married women without a high school diploma saw their inflation-adjusted household incomes fall 2% from 1970 to 2007, while those of their single counterparts grew 9%.
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: Fiero on Jan 19, 2010, 05:44:43 PM
So, what is the reason you filter the word poweR to poweT?
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: B E C K on Jan 19, 2010, 07:40:18 PM
http://powet.tv
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: Fiero on Jan 19, 2010, 08:03:33 PM
Oh! But what if I want to reference http://powet.com/Pub/Login.aspx?ReturnUrl=/priv/powet/home.aspx
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jan 19, 2010, 09:10:06 PM
My wife doesn't out-earn me!

Oh, yeah....
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: B E C K on Jan 19, 2010, 11:09:50 PM
Oh! But what if I want to reference http://powet.com/Pub/Login.aspx?ReturnUrl=/priv/powet/home.aspx

I kept doing that for months before I remembered to put the .tv at the end.
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: Rama on Jan 20, 2010, 01:07:25 AM
That's advertising. They should be paying you for that.
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: Faye Valentine on Jan 20, 2010, 12:40:08 PM
That article is right bitches. Soon women will control eeeeverything.
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: B E C K on Jan 20, 2010, 03:27:40 PM
Well, since progressive generations of men appear to be getting more and more pussified, I figured everyone will be a woman in another eighty years.
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jan 20, 2010, 10:04:36 PM
That should please IDE the Ever-Living.
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: Fiero on Jan 20, 2010, 10:09:29 PM
Please don't insult Mum-Ra like that.
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: Rama on Jan 21, 2010, 12:40:21 AM
And by association Ma-Mutt.
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: gwynn on Jan 21, 2010, 12:41:13 AM
I have no goal to out-earn anyone, I'm ready to leave this whole capitalist money-obsessed country. When you have so much, and are worth so much, then you have more to lose.
I'd rather be comfortably poor.
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: Fiero on Jan 21, 2010, 01:21:42 AM
I love beans and rice, so poor works for me, too. I'd like to eat more of it at a time, though.
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: B E C K on Jan 21, 2010, 02:04:55 AM
I'd rather be comfortably poor.

I still think comfortably upper middle class would be nice.  Not enough of an income to impulse buy on a regular basis, but where I can still have really cool shit as long as I save, plan for it, and sacrifice accordingly.
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: Faye Valentine on Jan 21, 2010, 07:31:10 AM
I have no goal to out-earn anyone, I'm ready to leave this whole capitalist money-obsessed country. When you have so much, and are worth so much, then you have more to lose.
I'd rather be comfortably poor.
You can go to one of those Tennessee communities and live there in their hippie style of life . They seem fun.
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: Derrick on Jan 21, 2010, 01:59:27 PM
Kary could verywell be earning more than me at the end of the month. Financial firms pay alot.
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: gwynn on Jan 21, 2010, 05:59:29 PM
I have no goal to out-earn anyone, I'm ready to leave this whole capitalist money-obsessed country. When you have so much, and are worth so much, then you have more to lose.
I'd rather be comfortably poor.
You can go to one of those Tennessee communities and live there in their hippie style of life . They seem fun.


I'm not a fan of "communities". I've tried fitting in with groups of people, it never works out. I'm going to start planning for a future off the grid before the end of this year.
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: Rama on Jan 21, 2010, 06:09:22 PM
I want to live off the grid, but not cause I'm a hippie or think the word is ending or anything. I just don't want to pay monthly water and powet bills.
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: Fiero on Jan 21, 2010, 07:06:18 PM
I want to live in the wild, and still have my internets and video games. And showers.
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: B E C K on Jan 21, 2010, 08:02:19 PM
Good luck, pilgrim.
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: Derrick on Jan 21, 2010, 08:41:48 PM
They have historic Plymouth up here. You can live like a Pilgrim. Then I'll come by daily and taunt you for doing meth and ruining your job prospects where you'd be yourself.

Just like that movie, Choke. Or was it The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnasus? I don't know.
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: B E C K on Jan 21, 2010, 08:55:47 PM
Mrs. Tindall from my high school would call everyone pilgrim.
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: Derrick on Jan 21, 2010, 09:30:17 PM
Was she related to John Wayne?

I fucking hate John Wayne.
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: Fiero on Jan 21, 2010, 09:45:41 PM
What about Clint Eastwood? If you don't like Clint Eastwood, then you are not a man.
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: Rama on Jan 21, 2010, 10:38:06 PM
Pre or Post Unforgiven?
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: B E C K on Jan 21, 2010, 11:55:32 PM
I hate him post!  Okay, not really.  Hate is a strong word.  But I'd like to kick in his old buzzardy face.
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: Rama on Jan 22, 2010, 12:11:47 AM
Plus if not liking "The Bridges of Madison County" makes me less of a man, then I think that's something I can live with.
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jan 22, 2010, 12:13:38 AM
I don't see how anyone can hate John Wayne.
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: Derrick on Jan 22, 2010, 05:21:43 AM
He was a rat. His 'Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals' was just an embarassment considering it attacked true American ideals, especially considering he was nothing but an actor.
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: B E C K on Jan 22, 2010, 12:49:12 PM
Actors are never meant to be liked as human beings, look at IDE.











































I keed!  I keed!  I love that horny little devil.
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: Rama on Jan 22, 2010, 01:22:06 PM
Yeah. He's a douche.




















































What? What are you looking for? There is nothing here. Move along.
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: Derrick on Jan 22, 2010, 10:10:19 PM
*cough*
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: Fiero on Jan 22, 2010, 10:54:40 PM
All this white space is giving me a headache.
































So stop it.
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: Derrick on Jan 22, 2010, 11:29:55 PM
I did nothing.
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jan 22, 2010, 11:40:00 PM
He was a rat. His 'Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals' was just an embarassment considering it attacked true American ideals, especially considering he was nothing but an actor.

The only problem with it was that the mission failed. I suppose you hate Walt Disney, too. Call him a mouse, maybe.
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: Derrick on Jan 23, 2010, 12:00:41 AM
I do hate Walt. Henry Ford, too. Just because they did great things doesn't make them great people. I think all three Kennedys were trash, too. I'm glad that Republican won his seat, now maybe the Dems will stop being slaves to Obama. Yeah, I used 'slave'.
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: Fiero on Jan 23, 2010, 02:12:20 PM
Walt Disney eats immigrant children to stay alive as a cyborg. How could you respect that?
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: Derrick on Jan 23, 2010, 04:05:33 PM
Also, he hated the Jews. Wonderful.
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jan 24, 2010, 10:34:24 PM
You don't make hate right by hating back.
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: Rama on Jan 24, 2010, 10:53:34 PM
I just hate people that hate people that hate.
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: Derrick on Jan 25, 2010, 12:04:08 AM
You don't make hate right by hating back.
Who says I have to be the bigger man? Better to hate for the right reasons, like God wants us to.
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jan 25, 2010, 10:15:58 PM
"Hate for the right reasons"? What arbitrary metric are we using?
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: Fiero on Jan 25, 2010, 10:35:46 PM
I think that was supposed to be humorous.
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: Derrick on Jan 25, 2010, 11:31:31 PM
It always is. But Fiero won.
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: B E C K on Jan 26, 2010, 12:34:30 AM
"Hate for the right reasons"? What arbitrary metric are we using?

I dun like that there metric system.  *strums banjo*
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: Derrick on Jan 26, 2010, 11:46:38 AM
PLAY SOME SKYANRD!!!
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: B E C K on Jan 26, 2010, 02:14:31 PM
Sweet home Alabamy
Where the skies is so blue
Sweet Home Alabamy
Lawd, I'm coming home to yew...
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: Rama on Jan 26, 2010, 02:21:20 PM
Play Freebird instead or Simple Man...Yeah play Simple Man!
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: Fiero on Jan 26, 2010, 10:34:10 PM
Sweet Home Alabama is the worst fucking song, made even more unbearable by Shit Rock.

Simple Man, however, is a tune from the gods.
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: Faye Valentine on Jan 28, 2010, 05:37:17 PM
Did any of you saw that episode from Wife Swap with "family A" being from Idaho, living from their own agriculture and cows, being all about "what will happen if an atomic bomb fell, we would be able to survive for one year without help"? They wash their teeth with a mixture of butter and I don't know what else. I almost puked. They also eat raw chicken.
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: B E C K on Feb 01, 2010, 01:00:02 PM
I remember raw chicken family!  Saw it a long time ago, but I remember that part.  And the swapped wife didn't want to eat it because she was afraid of getting sick.  Meanwhile, the other wife wanted her new family to eat shit raw or something.
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: Fiero on Feb 01, 2010, 04:24:08 PM
You cannot eat chicken raw! WHAT THE FUCK? The human body is not properly adapted for raw meat. Good grief.
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: Derrick on Feb 01, 2010, 04:50:48 PM
I've eaten raw beef and many raw fishies. Why does chicken have to be such a dick?
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: B E C K on Feb 01, 2010, 08:09:04 PM
Well these folks were eating it and claimed they never got sick.  IIRC, the visiting wife (the one visiting the raw food family) took them out to eat for normal cooked food and kids all got violently ill or some shit.
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: Derrick on Feb 01, 2010, 08:35:04 PM
Que peculiar.
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: B E C K on Feb 01, 2010, 11:30:21 PM
Yeah, and rofl'd.  I knew I shouldn't have and I felt a little guilty.  But then I laughed at a dead baby and I was filled with a whole new sense of guilt.
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: Derrick on Feb 02, 2010, 05:21:11 AM
Don't be, dead babies exist all the time. It's impolite if you don't laugh. It's not impolite if you start masturbating. That's a felony.

:(
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: Faye Valentine on Feb 02, 2010, 07:42:55 PM
Yeah, and rofl'd.  I knew I shouldn't have and I felt a little guilty.  But then I laughed at a dead baby and I was filled with a whole new sense of guilt.
I know it was so funny. And the boy in that family was such a pussy, I was really raging about it. He was crying and shit and the dad was crying like a little bitch too.
I've also eaten raw fish (even now btw) and raw beef and love it, but I wouldn't eat raw chicken. Or pork. Love how that crazy woman licked the ground at the end
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: B E C K on Feb 02, 2010, 09:27:53 PM
I can't eat raw.  When I was younger, a medium rare hamburger made me sick.  I did have a delicious medium rare steak last year and I felt fine, so maybe I just needed an older stomach to deal with it.

Heh, yeah, I remember the daddy crying.  "Yew made mah kids sick!" or some crap like that.
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Feb 02, 2010, 10:46:49 PM
I wouldn't eat anything raw, for sanitary/health reasons, but I've eaten barely cooked steaks before for the sheer heck of it. If the marination is right, you won't notice anything but a slicker texture.
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: Derrick on Feb 03, 2010, 05:08:39 AM
I wouldn't eat anything raw, for sanitary/health reasons, but I've eaten barely cooked steaks before for the sheer heck of it. If the marination is right, you won't notice anything but a slicker texture.
This isn't the 19th century, if you know where your food is coming from chances are it's safe. Pork can be eaten medium rare.
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: Faye Valentine on Feb 03, 2010, 05:57:04 PM
I wouldn't eat anything raw, for sanitary/health reasons, but I've eaten barely cooked steaks before for the sheer heck of it. If the marination is right, you won't notice anything but a slicker texture.
give it to me raaaaree! bloody meat is soooooo gooooooooooooood. I miss it :-( Raw fish is gooooood too! Does caviar falls in the raw food category? I don't think so?
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: Fiero on Feb 03, 2010, 07:50:27 PM
I wouldn't eat anything raw, for sanitary/health reasons, but I've eaten barely cooked steaks before for the sheer heck of it. If the marination is right, you won't notice anything but a slicker texture.
give it to me raaaaree! bloody meat is soooooo gooooooooooooood. I miss it :-( Raw fish is gooooood too! Does caviar falls in the raw food category? I don't think so?

Would you eat a chicken egg raw? In the shell?
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: Rama on Feb 03, 2010, 10:45:53 PM
I don't eat anything raw. If god had wanted me to eat it raw he wouldn't have given me the ability to make fire.
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: Fiero on Feb 03, 2010, 10:56:06 PM
Rama, that has got to be the most illogical thing I have ever read.
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: Rama on Feb 03, 2010, 11:03:06 PM
Shut it before I set you on fire and eat you!
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: B E C K on Feb 03, 2010, 11:07:40 PM
Rama, that has got to be the most illogical thing I have ever read.

:lmao:  PWNED.
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: Rama on Feb 04, 2010, 03:02:15 AM
Oh yeah, I feel it. I don't know if I'll be able to sleep tonight because of it. I'll just toss and turn thinking about it and when sleep does come it will be filled with nightmarish ghouls repeating the pwnage over and over until I wake in a cold sweat, hand on my heart to make sure that it still beats alive in my chest. And as the crisp cold dawn breaks though the gossamer like curtains that try in vain to hold back the light, I will sit and think if life is still worth living after such a pwnage. I will consider the white pills that sit so near behind the glass of the medicine cabinet and the sweet release from the torment that they will bring. How my shame can so quickly be washed away in that instant of bliss that lays between the thin line of life and death, and what torments or pleasure may await me for my crimes and deeds and maybe even consider that only black nothingness is all that awaits me.

That or I'll just move on. You know one of the two.
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: Faye Valentine on Feb 04, 2010, 11:37:22 AM
I wouldn't eat anything raw, for sanitary/health reasons, but I've eaten barely cooked steaks before for the sheer heck of it. If the marination is right, you won't notice anything but a slicker texture.
give it to me raaaaree! bloody meat is soooooo gooooooooooooood. I miss it :-( Raw fish is gooooood too! Does caviar falls in the raw food category? I don't think so?

Would you eat a chicken egg raw? In the shell?
Ala Rocky? No, BUT I do love eggs benedict and eat them once in a while. Even though I'm not "supposed" to. hmmm eggs benedict
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: Fiero on Feb 04, 2010, 03:16:50 PM
It'll be the first one and you know it.
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: Rama on Feb 04, 2010, 10:30:17 PM
Yeah, FAYE!
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: Faye Valentine on Feb 05, 2010, 09:57:11 AM
It'll be the first one and you know it.
wat
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: Fiero on Feb 05, 2010, 06:37:44 PM
That was for Ramalamadingdong.
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: Rama on Feb 05, 2010, 07:03:39 PM
Yeah he just acted like your post wasn't even there. He just totally ignored you. You can call him a prick now if you want. God knows he deserves it.
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: Fiero on Feb 05, 2010, 10:59:01 PM
I'm sorry Faye. I don't know if you can ever forgive me, but if you can, please shoot Rama in a non-vital area.
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: Rama on Feb 06, 2010, 01:57:49 AM
Like the groin.
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: Derrick on Feb 06, 2010, 08:18:32 AM
That's non-vital? Why did I get such a large fine for exposing mine?!
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: Faye Valentine on Feb 06, 2010, 12:06:46 PM
Yeah he just acted like your post wasn't even there. He just totally ignored you. You can call him a prick now if you want. God knows he deserves it.
Even better, I just took his last pellet. I hope he suffers.
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: Rama on Feb 06, 2010, 11:37:56 PM
That's non-vital? Why did I get such a large fine for exposing mine?!

I think it's more a subjective thing if it's vital or not.
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: Derrick on Feb 07, 2010, 08:31:30 AM
You didn't question it's vitality last night.
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: Rama on Feb 07, 2010, 01:52:41 PM
But I was dead inside when I did that. I cried the whole time. Not that you care. As long as you get yours that's all that matters to you!
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: Derrick on Feb 07, 2010, 03:01:21 PM
The tears let me know I'm doin' my job right.
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: B E C K on Feb 11, 2010, 03:29:32 AM
Just let him use his hand already.  It's too much for his throat alone.
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: Derrick on Feb 11, 2010, 05:23:52 AM
It's not the same. Manual manipulation hurts sometimes.
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: B E C K on Feb 11, 2010, 05:26:29 AM
Crisco?  Baby oil?  Clip his nails first?
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: Derrick on Feb 11, 2010, 05:33:50 AM
He'd never clip his nails. He looks like Chewbacca with those hands.
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: B E C K on Feb 11, 2010, 05:39:48 AM
The hair on the palms probably absorbs all the lube then.
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: Derrick on Feb 11, 2010, 05:45:49 AM
Don't clone people from that hair. The results become skewed.
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: B E C K on Feb 11, 2010, 05:49:58 AM
Like fucked-up transporters fusing people together.  Ha, see what I did thar?
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: Derrick on Feb 11, 2010, 05:50:38 AM
That's how Quatto from Total Recall was made.
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: B E C K on Feb 11, 2010, 05:53:02 AM
Really?  And here I thought two other chest people met each other and fell in love...





...well, not love.  It's really nothing but lust for them these days.
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: B E C K on Feb 11, 2010, 05:53:21 AM
Or was he on the dude's back?  Bah, fuck it.
Title: Re: More wives outearning their husbands
Post by: Rama on Feb 11, 2010, 12:52:32 PM
Starman wasn't fucked up!