Wednesday, January 22, 2014
Ari Fleischer: How to Fight Income Inequality: Get Married - WSJ.com
Times have changed and this horse may well have left the barn.
Unfortunately, the population that needs to know this gets more freebies than incentive, and certainly doesn't read the Wall Street Journal...
Unfortunately, the population that needs to know this gets more freebies than incentive, and certainly doesn't read the Wall Street Journal...
Former White House Press secretary Ari Fleischer recently wrote about this in the Wall Street Journal:
""Marriage inequality" should be at the center of any discussion of why some Americans prosper and others don't. According to Census Bureau information analyzed by the Beverly LaHaye Institute, among families headed by two married parents in 2012, just 7.5% lived in poverty. By contrast, when families are headed by a single mother the poverty level jumps to 33.9%. And the number of children raised in female-headed families is growing throughout America. A 2012 study by the Heritage Foundation found that 28.6% of children born to a white mother were out of wedlock. For Hispanics, the figure was 52.5% and for African-Americans 72.3%. In 1964, when the war on poverty began, almost everyone was born in a family with two married parents: only 7% were not."
