“For example, if the government made sure all poor young men had access to decent jobs, the marriage rate would go way up.”
First of all do you have any evidence of that or is that just your conjecture?
Secondly, how exactly is the government supposed to make sure poor young men or group of people have access to decent jobs? By holding a gun to employers’ heads and forcing them to hire these people? Is that legal or just? Neither the government nor anyone else has the right to tell some business owner who has poured his blood sweat and tears into building a successful business who they should be hiring.
Should the government give financial incentives to business hiring poor young men? Doesn’t that then create an unfair disadvantage to other groups? (like poor young women)
Should the government take more tax money to pay for education for poor young men? Because I gotta tell you that I got a double bachelors and it’s done very little for me by way of finding employment. I have multiple friends with MBA’s who cant find decent jobs. I have a relative with a masters degree who couldn’t land a flight attendant job. So unless all these poor young men are going to be getting something highly practical like a computer engineering or something, access to education doesn’t magically equal better job opportunities in today’s job market.
The best to get jobs for poor young men, and everyone for that matter, is to cut back on government instead of expand it, cut back on overbearing regulations and government interference and one of the highest corporate tax rates in the entire WORLD so that there is more profit margin and therefore more money available to pay salaries and the free market will most often take care of itself.