Tag Archives: families
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Outdoor Living
Posted on June 28, 2010 by Merdi in Decorating, Just For FunI love Colorado, I really do. But summer makes me want water and beaches, and Colorado is seriously lacking both of those amenities. Yes, there are reservoirs, but they tend to be overcrowded and, frankly, it’s not the same. I’m thinking of serious water, like the Atlantic coast kind of water. So in order to [...]
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Sunday reading
Posted on December 6, 2009 by Merdi in UncategorizedHappy Sunday everyone! I figured that since I’ll spend all day reading, and misery loves company… just kidding. I actually found some really great articles this week, and I’d highly recommend checking them out. I’d love to hear your opinions. Are parents now really different than they used to be? Is that good or bad? [...]
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Economic Mobility
Posted on July 22, 2009 by Merdi in UncategorizedI thought this was a particularly interesting graph of economic mobility. Bear in mind that some of the bottom line statistics to come out of this can be seen as good news for the lowest quintile; they have up to a 60% chance of making it out of that quintile, and a 20% chance of [...]
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The myth of welfare mothers
Posted on July 17, 2009 by Merdi in UncategorizedBased on a lot of the claims I’ve been hearing about in my readings about welfare mothers, I thought that this was a particularly interesting finding by Stephanie Coontz in her 1992 book, The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap: “Economists William Darity and Samuel Myers found that in any specific [...]
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