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Britain Continues To Decay.(Brief Article)
Britain Continues To Decay Charles Murray, Underclass + 10, Institute for the Study of Civil Society/Sunday Times of London, 39 York Road, London SE17HQ, England.
Over the past decade, American Enterprise Institute fellow Murray has been repeatedly asked by the London Sunday Times to analyze British social trends. In his latest report, he finds that the British underclass continues to get larger.
Murray examines three British indicators: the percentage of young men who have dropped out of the labor force, the number of unmarried women having children, and the rates of violent crime. All three indicators are rising sharply. The number of unemployed young men has risen by a third over the last decade, and the illegitimacy rate has tripled.
In 1996, the violent crime rate in Britain was, for the first time, higher than in the U.S. Britain still has fewer robberies than America, but British criminals are twice as likely to burglarize homes as their American counterparts. The result: Britain is now "just another high-crime industrialized country."
Put his three indicators together and you have a recipe for a rising British underclass, contends Murray. He points out that the decay in Britain's ...
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