Poverty – Page 9

The Rise of Single-Parent Families Is Not a Good Thing

How the erosion of the convention of raising children inside a two-parent home is damaging families and worsening economic inequality.

At the U.N., world leaders promised to work to end poverty, illiteracy and child marriage. So much for their promises.

Soaring child poverty was a political choice that’s not just cruel but also economically self-destructive.

We can’t have a serious conversation about poverty and inequality without contemplating the breakdown of marriage and family.

The increase in poverty reversed two years of large declines. Median income, adjusted for inflation, fell 2.3 percent to $74,580.