US Children in Two-Parent Families Have High Poverty Rates
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Piggybacking on a New York Times weekend piece about single motherhood, Bruenig points out that the US children in two-parent families also have high poverty rates. In 2013, the US two-parent child poverty rate was 5.7x as high as the Finland two-parent child poverty rate. Skimpy social support for families push the child poverty rate up in all kinds of families, not just single mother families.