Rachel Sheffield is research fellow in welfare and family policy in the Center for Health and Welfare Policy at The Heritage Foundation. Read her research.
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Millennials don’t seem to think getting married and having children is very important to society. According to a recent Pew survey, only 29 percent of… Read More
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Americans are no stranger to these words from the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal…”… Read More
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Among young adults, first comes baby, then (maybe) comes marriage. This increasingly is the new normal. According to a new study from Johns Hopkins University,… Read More
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It’s Father’s Day this Sunday. But as The Washington Post points out, even on Dad’s day, he is often the butt of the joke. As… Read More
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Children with involved fathers are more likely to graduate from college—particularly among middle- and upper-income families but also among those from lower-income backgrounds, a recent… Read More
It was 50 years ago today that Lyndon B. Johnson gave his famed “Great Society” speech. His Great Society included a massive system of government… Read More
Poor Americans may be “better off” today than before the government’s War on Poverty began in the 1960s, as a New York Time article published… Read More
A Slate article this week suggests that because working-class men have more trouble today finding steady employment, women find it difficult to see them as… Read More
More mothers are staying home with their kids, says a new Pew report. The number of stay-at-home mothers reached an all-time low of 23 percent… Read More
It took Congress months to come up with a farm bill, but in the end all it did was make a miniscule tweak to a… Read More
