Divorce by race/ethnicity and education, 2010

Some new numbers from the 2010 American Community Survey.

That giant gobbling sound (is the 1% eating more and more of the cookies)

Every single group except the top 1% has a shrinking share of the income -- but many more than that have seen income gains.

Gender integration’s lost decade

In the last decade, there just was a smidgen of change -- just enough so that, if it continues at that pace, we will have complete gender integration... by the middle of the 26th century.

Single parents, crime and incarceration

It looks more like incarceration causes single-parent families than single-parent families cause crime.

Mid-course corrections

Learning as we go.

Marriage promotion, farce or fraud?

Did you know that married couples with children spend 50-times more on childcare than single adults without children?

Crying out for more babies

Is there a better way to deal with aging societies than trying to get people to have more children?

Google searches foretold Census report of divorce increase?

But my confidence in this whole enterprise is limited. Trying to figure out what's happening with divorce -- an extended activity for me lately -- might be better left alone for a year or two, till we get some more data and do some serious analysis. But, the bad combination of a trickle of numbers,…

Google index of poor mothers’ pain

The old "misery index" was just unemployment plus inflation. Maybe the new index to watch is Google searches for "help for single mothers.