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Abhijit V. Banerjee • Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
Most evicted households in Milwaukee have children living in them, and across the country, many evicted children end up homeless. The substandard housing and unsafe neighborhoods to which many evicted families must relocate can degrade a child’s health, ability to learn, and sense of self-worth.22 And if eviction has lasting effects on mothers’…
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Matthew Desmond • Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
disadvantaged neighborhoods with higher levels of “collective efficacy”—the stuff of loosely linked neighbors who trust one another and share expectations about how to make their community better—have lower crime rates.3 A single eviction could destabilize multiple city blocks, not only the block from which a family was evicted but also the block t
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most “talented” Americans were reproducing at a very low rate.19
Elaine Tyler May • Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era
For the women who were managing households, raising children, and holding down jobs, the appeal of having it all had led most unexpectedly to the reality of having less and less.
Micki McGee • Self-Help, Inc.: Makeover Culture in American Life
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Elizabeth Warren • All Your Worth
Once the Millennials came along, two-income families became more acknowledged and accepted, and more childcare became available.
Jean M. Twenge • Generations
But it also depends on whether she can find a job, her freedom to divorce, and her survival options in the case of divorce. These contingencies, in turn, depend on the legal, social, political, and economic environment she and her husband inhabit,