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Tag: Demographics

Low-income parents want a white picket fence, not just money, before...

Christina Gibson-Davis, Duke University and Anna Gassman-Pines, Duke University Marriage rates in the U.S. are declining, especially among the lowest-income Americans. However, in October, wage...

New data paint an unpleasant picture of poverty in the US

Steven Pressman, Colorado State University On Sept. 12, the U.S. Census Bureau released national poverty data for 2017. The headline was that 39.7 million people were...

Why the war on poverty in the US isn’t over, in...

Robert L. Fischer, Case Western Reserve University On July 12, President Trump’s Council of Economic Advisers concluded that America’s long-running war on poverty “is largely...

The US is facing a serious shortage of airline pilots

Peter Gall, West Virginia University The national security of the U.S. relies on a healthy airline industry. That requires modern reliable airplanes – and highly...

Baby bust: 5 charts show how expensive it is to have...

Heidi Steinour, University of South Florida Today, roughly one in five women in the U.S. doesn’t have children. Thanks in part to this decline in...

Census director’s resignation could affect control of Congress after 2020

Jay L. Zagorsky, The Ohio State University John H. Thompson, the director of the U.S. Census Bureau, just resigned amid a funding fight...

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