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    Chapter 3: How Do Stay-at-Home Dads Compare with Working Dads?

    Among all fathers who live with at least one of their children, stay-at-home fathers are less well-off financially than their working counterparts. About half (47%) of fathers at home are living in poverty, compared with just 8% of those working outside of the home. The poverty rate of stay-at-home fathers is even higher than that […]

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    In search of libertarians

    About one-in-ten Americans (11%) describe themselves as libertarian and know what the term means.

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    Section 3: Fairness of the Economic System, Views of the Poor and the Social Safety Net

    There is public agreement that the U.S. economic system unfairly favors powerful interests, and even more Americans believe that large corporations in this country are too powerful. But on both issues, Business Conservatives offer strongly dissenting views; they are the only typology group in which a majority sees the economic system as fundamentally fair. Overall, […]

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    Young Adults Driving Growth in Multi-generational Living

    The post-recession uptick in the population living in multi-generational arrangements has been particularly pronounced among young adults ages 25 to 34. In 2012, 23.6% of this age group lived in a multi-generational household, up from 21.6% in 2010. Historically, the oldest Americans, those ages 85 and older, have been the most likely to live with […]

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    References

    Autor, David, and Melanie Wasserman. 2013. Wayward Sons: The Emerging Gender Gap in Labor Markets and Education. Washington, D.C.: Third Way, March. Carnevale, Anthony P., Tamara Jayasundera, and Ban Cheah. 2012. “The College Advantage: Weathering the Economic Storm.” Washington, D.C.: Georgetown Center for Education and the Workforce, August. Fry, Richard, et. al. 2011. “The Rising […]

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    Event: The Future of World Religions

    Thursday, April 23, 10 A.M. to 11:30 A.M. The Pew Research Center’s new demographic projections– the first formal forecasts using data on age, fertility, mortality, migration and religious switching for the world’s eight major religious groups – finds that the religious profile of the world is rapidly changing. By 2050, the number of Muslims around […]

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    Growing Number of Dads Home with the Kids

    The number of fathers who do not work outside the home has nearly doubled since 1989, rising markedly in recent years. And more of these “stay-at-home” dads say they’re home primarily to care for family.

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