Tag: Household Structure
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The Frayed Knot: Marriage in America
The Economist: The Frayed Knot: Marriage in America ….There is a widening gulf between how the best- and least-educated Americans approach marriage and child-rearing. Among the elite (excluding film stars), the nuclear family is holding up quite well. Only 4% of the children of mothers with college degrees are born out of wedlock. And the…
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American Poverty and Household Structure
Why aren’t we making more progress in fighting poverty in America? The rate of poverty in America was 20% in the early 1960s. After the Great Society programs of the 1960s, that rate dropped to an all-time low of 11.1% in 1973. It climbed to 15.2% in 1983 and again to 15.1% in 1993. As…