1. Does the NYT Know that Much of the Working Class is Not White?
(Matching tags: working class, middle class, Elections 2012)

In a New York Times article with the headline “Ohio Working Class May Offer Key to Obama’s Reelection,” the reporters explain that “Mr. Obama’s ability to prevent erosion among working-class voters may ...

2. 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 ...

3. 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 ...

4. NewtAid at 16: The Failure of TANF and Conservative Social Policy
(Matching tags: poverty, children, working class, social insurance)

... it was before NewtAid. AFDC was far from a perfect program—especially after Reagan-era budget cuts limited the support it provided for working parents—but it was one of the dependable pillars of our ...

5. Family Structure is Overrated as an Explanation of Family Income Inequality, Part 4 on DeParle's Marriage Plot
(Matching tags: poverty, jobs, inequality, working class, low-wage workers, income, families)

The basic assumption undergirding Jason DeParle's piece is that changes in family structure have been one of the primary drivers of growth in family income inequality over the last several decades. What ...

6. Family Structure is Overrated as an Explanation of Inequality, Part 3 on DeParle's Marriage Plot
(Matching tags: poverty, jobs, inequality, working class, low-wage workers, income, families)

Sociologist Loïc Wacquant writes that "binary oppositions are well-suited to exaggerating differences, confounding description and prescription, and setting up overburdened dualisms that erase continuities, ...

7. Family Structure is Overrated as an Explanation of Inequality, Part 2 on DeParle
(Matching tags: poverty, jobs, inequality, working class, low-wage workers, income, families)

... an A.A. degree, being a manager, and working six years with the same employer), with that of her boss, Chris Faulkner, who is married to a man who appears to makes around $60,000. (DeParle says Ms. Faulkner ...

8. One Poverty Roll Please, Hold the Mayo!
(Matching tags: poverty, media, working class, etymology)

... English poor laws in the 18th and 19th century, so perhaps the NYT wants to evoke those happy times of progress for the working class. So, the NYT is abusing the English langauge. Should we care? In ...