Tag: government benefits
Parental leave laws are failing single parents
Deborah Widiss, Indiana University
The two parties in Congress don’t agree on much these days. However, in the final days of December, they struck a...
The 2019 government shutdown is just the latest reason why poor...
Jamila Michener, Cornell University
I conduct a lot of in-depth interviews with people like a woman I’ll call Angie as part of my work as...
Why are some Americans changing their names?
Kirsten Fermaglich, Michigan State University
In 2008, Newsweek published an article on then-presidential candidate Barack Obama titled “From Barry to Barack.”
The story explained how Obama’s...