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December 11, 2023
How Public Housing Encourages Single Parenthood and Penalizes Marriage
…data from HUD’s Office of Policy Development and Research, median income per person in public and subsidized housing is just $8,000 today, and 77 % of tenants are classified as “lowest-income”…
October 27, 2023
What liberals don’t understand about men and marriage
…coordinator at the Institute for Family Studies. She previously worked in research with sociologist Christian Smith and studied Great Books, theology and constitutional studies at the University of Notre Dame….
September 18, 2023
No Culture Wars, Please, We’re Academics
…seeks to maintain her standing in her narrow world, Ian Rowe of the American Enterprise Institute has been going around the country trying to get schools to teach the “Success…
September 14, 2023
The Privilege Hiding in Plain Sight
…life prospects of children — far more than the usually invoked suspects of race and gender. According to Kearney, in 2019, “77% of white children and 88% of Asian children…
August 17, 2023
The ‘Utah Family Miracle’ and Why It Matters
…economic mobility, child poverty and median family income than are the education level, racial makeup and age composition of its population.” Likewise, Harvard economist Raj Chetty and his colleagues found…
June 22, 2023
Thanks to the Baby Bust, America Is Getting Older
When I was born in 1978, the median American was 30 years old. These days, the median American is 38.9, the U.S. Census Bureau reported Thursday. That’s a rapid aging of the American population. Some portion…
June 20, 2023
Down Through the Ages
…economic perspective, Twenge argues that many people who think they’re not prospering actually are. Gen X’ers ended up with a “higher median household income than Boomers and Silents at the same…
June 16, 2023
Marriage Is Still the Best Way to Bond a Father to His Children
Editor’s Note: The following essay is an edited transcript of AEI senior fellow Ian Rowe’s opening remarks at “A Debate on Fatherhood,” hosted by the National Marriage Project at UVA and the American Enterprise…
April 25, 2023
A Debate on Fatherhood
Richard Reeves and Ian Rowe debate the question, “Does strengthening fatherhood depend upon renewing marriage in America?” In his recent book, Of Boys and Men, Brookings Senior Fellow Richard Reeves…
April 17, 2023
Data Tools 6: The Geography of Traditional Families in America
…other two-parent configurations. In the 2021 ACS, median family income was $115,600 for children of married birth parents, $87,300 for children of parent-stepparent couples, and only $33,500 for children of…