This review explains how and why the United States has systemically high poverty.
Descriptive evidence shows that US poverty is (i) a huge share of the population,(ii) a …

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The work-family conflict that mothers experience today is a national crisis. Women struggle
to balance breadwinning with the bulk of parenting, and stress is constant. Social policies …

This article develops a framework for analyzing the risks of poverty in terms of prevalences
(share of the population with a risk) and penalties (increased probability of poverty …

This study examined to what extent family policies differently affect poverty among single-
parent households and two-parent households. We distinguished between reconciliation …

Current theorizing and evidence suggest that parenting stress might be greater among
parents from both low and high socioeconomic positions (SEP) compared with those from …

Korpi and Palme's (1998) classic “The Paradox of Redistribution and Strategies of Equality”
claims that universal social policy better reduces poverty than social policies targeted at the …

In the social sciences, empirical results are often inconclusive or contradictory, as different
studies may, for example, use different concepts, measurements that are more or less …

The declining prevalence of two-parent families helped increase income inequality over
recent decades. Does family structure also condition how economic (dis) advantages pass …

The article presents an analysis of the association between labor market characteristics
related to female employment and the prevalence of in-work poverty. We compare two …