How Welfare Programs Discourage Marriage: The Case of Pre-K Education Subsidies
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How Welfare Programs Discourage Marriage: The Case of Pre-K Education Subsidies
The War On Poverty’s Collateral Damage
The story of generational poverty since the 1960s. What changed? There as poverty before the 1960s but it didn't seem to destroyed the family like it has since the 1960s. Is it possible that the "war on poverty" had the unintended consequence of becoming the War on the Family?
Truly astonishing indictment of our welfare policies fr @AtlantaFed.
A single mother in DC can make no gains, financially, as her earnings rise from $11,000 to $65,000
because benefits like food stamps & Medicaid phase in/out as her income rises.
Terrible for... See more
" If you want to summarize the changes in family structure over the past century, the truest thing to say is this: We’ve made life freer for individuals and more unstable for families. We’ve made life better for adults but worse for children. We’ve moved from big, interconnected, and extended families, which helped protect the most vulnerable
... See moreAccording to Restrepo-Echavarria and her peers at the St. Louis Fed, this economically-driven shift in marriage preferences accounts for approximately half of the increase in household income inequality between 1980 and 2020 — a figure so profound it almost seems unbelievable. “This is a huge thing,” says Restrepo-Echavarria. “If inequality is... See more
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One thing happening in the background here is that marriage rates are declining most among low-income and low-education groups. That means the marriages that do happen are more likely to involve higher-education, higher-income couples who have always had a lower divorce rate.