1. CEPR News November 2012
(Matching tags: poverty, jobs, inequality, unemployment, Haiti, unions, latin america, private equity, employment, marriage, Elections 2012, Fiscal Cliff, Hostess)

The following highlights CEPR's latest research, publications, events and much more. CEPR on the So-called “Fiscal Cliff” CEPR weighed in on the “Fiscal Cliff” debate, reminding everyone that – as ...

2. David Brooks Thinks Sweden Is More Chaotic than Syria
(Matching tags: gender, marriage)

... orderly and less chaotic society like Syria, marriage is valued so highly that the share of children born to unmarried parents is nearly 0 percent. That said, the only data on nonmarital childbirth I ...

3. The NYT and the 'Disorganized Single-Mother' Meme
(Matching tags: poverty, media, children, inequality, working class, marriage)

I remember being struck several years ago by David Brooks' odd use of the adjective "disorganized" to describe single-parent families. As he put it in the New York Times in 2007: "A human capital agenda ...

4. Contra Santorum: Most Adults in Poverty Marry and Have High School Diplomas
(Matching tags: poverty, working class, education, marriage, Santorum)

... (for every year of our entire working life); (2) graduated from high school (regardless of the quality of that education), and (3) got married (regardless of the quality of that marriage). Absent massive ...

5. Family Structure is Overrated as an Explanation of Inequality, Part 5
(Matching tags: poverty, inequality, mobility, marriage)

According to NYT reporter Jason DeParle: “there are suggestions that the absence of a father in the house makes it harder for children to climb the economic ladder.” To support this proposition, he cites ...