Happy 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? [...]

I 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 [...]

Based 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 [...]