the young men work fewer than twenty
hours a week and find not a single
person aware of his own laziness.
During the 2012 election cycle, the
Public Religion Institute, a left-leaning
think tank, published a report on
working-class whites. It found, among
other things, that working-class whites
worked more hours than college-
educated whites. But the idea that the
average working-class white works
more hours is demonstrably false.^13 The
Public Religion Institute based its results
on surveys—essentially, they called
around and asked people what they
thought.^14 The only thing that report
proves is that many folks talk about