“A short review cannot convey the rich variety of arguments and data Bartels deploys in
making his case…. Bartels shows that social issues do not create as strong a headwind …

Abstract Prior Journal of Marriage and Family decade‐in‐review articles have grappled with
the definition and role of family policy for research and policy practice while emphasizing its …

During the past decade, scholars continued to focus on how larger economic trends
impacted families across the income spectrum. From income and wealth inequality to …

Despite the fact that most people become parents and everyone who has ever lived has had
parents, parenting remains a mystifying subject about which almost everyone has opinions …

Students in the United States whose household income is less than 130% of the poverty line
qualify for free lunch, and students whose household income is between 130% and 185% of …

Income poverty is typically measured as whether a family's total annual income falls below a
specified poverty line. The Census Bureau's annual poverty estimates, for example, show …

Official poverty estimates for the United States are presented annually, based on a family
unit's annual resources, and reported with a considerable lag. This study introduces a …

This chapter reviews the conceptual and empirical linkages between poverty and parenting,
focuses on the economic dimension of poverty at the family rather than the neighborhood …

Recently, there has been tremendous interest in deep and extreme poverty in the United
States. We advance beyond prior research by using higher-quality data, improving …

We examine the relationship between the earned income tax credit (EITC) and Black-White
after-tax income inequality from 1980 to 2020. The EITC lowers overall inequality by 5–10 …