Rocks and hard places for the very poor.
Posts Tagged ‘poverty’
Cash welfare down, food stamps, disability, marriage fiasco and extreme poverty up
Posted in In the news, tagged disability, marrigae, poverty, recession, welfare on April 8, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Poverty, single mothers and mobility
Posted in Research reports, tagged marriage, poverty, single mothers, socimages on February 27, 2012 | 6 Comments »
Single and/or married. Relative poverty rates help set the policy agenda.
Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood: Time for some results
Posted in Research reports, tagged marriage, policy, poverty on November 14, 2011 | 10 Comments »
My initial assessment: ideologically-driven waste of money, pending future research.
Prescriptions for poverty
Posted in Research reports, tagged healthcare, poverty, recession on November 10, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Economic insecurity in a snapshot.
Google index of poor mothers’ pain
Posted in Me @ work, tagged google, poverty, recession, socimages, welfare on October 3, 2011 | 7 Comments »
The old “misery index” was just unemployment plus inflation. Maybe the new index to watch is Google searches for “help for single mothers.
Dependency futures
Posted in In the news, tagged aging, census, income, poverty on September 30, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Unemployment, declining earnings, and growing poverty among middle-aged people are bad for social support in the future.
Three things about poverty and family structure
Posted in In the news, tagged poverty, recession, single mothers on September 22, 2011 | 6 Comments »
In this recession, only a quarter of the increase in poverty is among families with single mothers.
Cohabitation dustup followup thoughts
Posted in In the news, Me @ work, tagged cohabitation, crime, marriage, media, poverty, single mothers on September 2, 2011 | 17 Comments »
Just a few roundup thoughts and graphs on the cohabitation-is-bad-for-kids thing.
This cohabitation-causes-bad-parenting thing
Posted in In the news, Research reports, tagged cohabitation, marriage, media, poverty on August 31, 2011 | 15 Comments »
The Wilcox disinformation train gathers steam.
Living with grandparents update (yikes edition)
Posted in In the news, tagged grandparents, multigenerational, poverty, recession on April 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Onward and upward with kids’ grandparents.
Philip N. Cohen
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