Poverty, single mothers and mobility

Single and/or married. Relative poverty rates help set the policy agenda.

Home care workers, uncared for

The Carsey Institute's Kristin Smith has written a brief on the plight of home care workers -- the home health aides and personal care aides that play a growing role in our patchwork network of care work. The news now is that these workers are not covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act -- which…

Pink and blue kid(s)

You're busted as a product of socialization.

Charles Murray on his propaganda playing field

By treating American Enterprise Institute representatives as legitimate experts we play into their diabolical schemes.

Divorcing our way to prosperity

The boom in broken marriages will be good or bad depending on whether they were good or bad divorces, not because they are good or bad for "the economy."

Marriage rights, writ wrong

With the big decision striking down California's Proposition 8 -- which banned homogamous marriage -- the terminology used is not today's lead story. But it is a good time to reflect on it. So, here are the results of last's weeks Family Inequality reader poll, which asked two questions: When the state permits marriage between…

Graphing poverty rates and numbers, cutting room floor edition

Here are some poverty graphs I guess I'm not going to use in my book.* I keep data in my head in graphical form. Which means that I need to make a graph, or see someone else's, before I can really learn the pattern. But truthfully, even looking at other people's graphs doesn't make it…

Poll: What do you call homogamous marriage?

Try to answer with the language you actually use, not what you think is best.

Grad Seminar: Gender, Work, and Family Syllabus

Here is the reading list for my new seminar, Gender, Work and Family. It's a required course for grad students at U. Maryland who plan to take the comprehensive exam in GWF. The full syllabus, with assignments, etc., is here. I go back and forth on a handful of issues: breadth versus depth, country case…