Blended families are those created from a couple, their children, and children each parent brings from a previous relationship or marriage. This type of family composition can often create unique challenges for the parents and the children.
formerly known as food stamps, for childless adults. The bill also requires each state to collect and submit information to the federal government about the percentage of people enrolled in SNAP who are in unsubsidized employment, as well as the median earning of people who were...
This report presents long-term trends in the number and percentage of persons under age 65 years with different types of health insurance coverage and with no coverage. It documents changes in how the National Health Interview Survey (NH... RA Cohen,DM Makuc,AB Bernstein,... - 《National ...
percentage of children born to single women has leaped from 12% to 39%. Whereas a majority of children in the mid-1970s were raised by a stay-at-home parent, the portion is now less than a third, and nearly two-thirds of people say this has been a negative for American society. Amo...
My closest friends are entrepreneurs, some are Americans, some of whom have created social networks or others are investors. I like entrepreneurs because they are different, because they have a little grain of madness, because I am never bored with them: people see me as a billionaire, but ...
Poverty levels are a subject of intense scrutiny and debate; for example, estimates of the percentage of Americans living in poverty range from 12-18%, depending on which measure of poverty is being used. For most purposes, the “poverty level” refers to two different measurements. The first...
The economist Arthur Brooks notes that 51 percent of Americans say they’re very satisfied with their jobs, which is a higher percentage than in any European country except Denmark, Switzerland and Austria. In his 2008 book, “Gross National Happiness,” Dr. Brooks argues that what’s crucial...
pregnancies resulting from rape are so rare as to be virtually non-existent. There are several contributing factors to this. In addition to the pure mathematical odds against pregnancy resulting f rom a single random act, medical research indicates that an extremely high percentage of woman exposed...
The EITC works out to a percentage of a taxpayer’s earned income up to a maximum amount, and it’s intended as an incentive to get people to work. They’ll receive a portion of their earnings back as a refundable tax credit if they do – literally cash in their pockets. And yet, ...
A recent survey showed that in the last five years the percentage of wives aged 25 to 29 who did not want children had almost doubled and among those 18 to 24 it had almost tripled. What lies behind this decision which seems to fly in the face of biology and society? Perhaps the ...