Millennials & Gen-Z are Poorer Than Ever (Here’s Why)
Humphrey Yang. 2023 5 17.
Have the Boomers Pinched Their Children’s Futures? – with Lord David Willetts
The Royal Institution. 2020 1 23.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuXzvjBYW8A
Some numbers at beginning for UK and Europe.
The Cost of Raising a Child
Mark Lino. 2017 1 13. U.S. Department of Agriculture.
https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2017/01/13/cost-raising-child
How the Cost of Raising a Child has Changed Over Time
Francesca Ortegren. 2021 8 3. ListWithClever.
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How U.S. Health Policy Changes Have Affected Healthcare Costs Over Time
Francesca Ortegren. 2021 8 3. ListWithClever.
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Catalyzing Growth: Using Data to Change Child Care
ChildCare Aware of America.
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The Evidence on Family Affordability
Angela Rachidi. 2023 4 18. American Enterprise Institute.
The Evidence on Family Affordability
Angela Rachidi. 2023 4. American Enterprise Institute.
https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/The-Evidence-on-Family-Affordability.pdf?x85095
Family Affordability in America: A Story of Decline or Achievement?
American Enterprise Institute. 2023 6 22.
The Evidence on Family Affordability.
Angela Rachidi. 2023. AEI Paper & Studies.
The Case Against the Child Tax Credit
Adam N. Michel and Vanessa Brown Calder. 2023 7 31. CATO Institute.
https://www.cato.org/blog/case-against-child-tax-credit
The Cost of Raising a Child
Jeremy Horpedahl. 2022 9 7. Economist Writing Everyday.
It’s getting more expensive to raise children. And government isn’t doing much to help.
Isabel V. Sawhill et al. 2022 8 30. BROOKINGS.
Family Budget Burdens Squeezing Housing: Child Care Costs
https://www.freddiemac.com/research/insight/20200107-family-budget-burdens
Child care remains out of financial reach for many families, US Department of Labor data shows
U.S. Department of Labor.
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CHILDCARE PRICES IN LOCAL AREAS
Liana Christin Landivar et al. 2023 1. Women’s Bureau: U.S. Department of Labor.
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Fact Sheet: Child Care and the Economy
First Five Years Fund. 2024 3 6.
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The Problem With ‘Affordable’ Child Care
Ellitot Haspel. 2024 3 20. The Atlantic.
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Annual Costs to Raise a Small Child Increased By 19.3% Nationwide to $21,681 Between 2016 and 2021
Jamie Cattanach et al. 2023 9 11. Lending Tree.
https://www.lendingtree.com/debt-consolidation/raising-a-child-study
$122 Billion: The Growing, Annual Cost of the Infant-Toddler Child Care Crisis
Sandra Bishop. 2023 2. Ready Nation: Council for a strong America.
Critics Corner with Angela Rachidi
Angela Rachidi. 2023 5 9. Critics Corner.
Hitting Home: Housing Affordability in the U.S.
Karan Bhasin et al. 2024 3 14. EconoFact.
How the cost of raising a child has skyrocketed over 25 years
Dom DiFurio. 2023 10 14. WRAL News.
https://www.wral.com/story/how-the-cost-of-raising-a-child-has-skyrocketed-over-25-years/21097108
U.S. is way stingier with maternity leave and child care than the rest of the world
Joya Misra. 2024 5 14. Nevada Current.
Changing Narratives on Family Affordability with Angela Rachidi
The Archbridge Podcast.
https://player.simplecast.com/75ca919e-187b-4fb7-ad28-8b2c7fdb7528?dark=true
Response to Scott Winship
Lyman Stone. 2021 5 11. Medium. A State of Migration.
https://medium.com/migration-issues/response-to-scott-winship-ecefd439963a
Spotlight Exclusives
Scott Winship. 2020 9 16. SPOTLIGHT On Poverty & Opportunity.
No Ring, No Baby: How Marriage Trends Impact Fertility
Lyman Stone. 2018 3 19. Institute for Family Studies.
https://ifstudies.org/blog/no-ring-no-baby
Scott Winship: The true cost of expanding the child tax credit
Scott Winship. 2022 12 25. The Salt Lake Tribune.
https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2022/12/25/scott-winship-true-cost
The Impact of the 2021 Expanded Child Tax Credit on Child Poverty
Kalee Burns and Liana E. Fox. 2022. Social, Economic, and Housing Statistics Division U.S. Census Bureau.
https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/working-papers/2022/demo/sehsd-wp2022-24.pdf
The Anti-Poverty, Targeting, and Labor Supply Effects of the Proposed Child Tax Credit Expansion
Kevin Corinth et al. 2021 10 7. Becker Friedman Institute for Economics.
https://bfi.uchicago.edu/working-paper/2021-115
https://bfi.uchicago.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/BFI_WP_2021-115-1.pdf
How Would a Permanent 2021 Child Tax Credit Expansion Affect Poverty and Employment?
Jacob Bastian. 2024 5 15. National Tax Journal.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/728703#
CHILD TAX CREDIT RECIPIENTS EXPERIENCED A LARGER DECLINE IN FOOD
INSECURITY AND A SIMILAR CHANGE IN EMPLOYMENT AS NONRECIPIENTS
BETWEEN 2020 AND 2021
Michael Karpman et al. 2022 5. Tax Policy Center.
2021 Child Tax Credit, Dependent Care, and EITC
Taxpayer Advocate Service.
https://www.taxpayeradvocate.irs.gov/covid-19-home/2021-actc-child-and-dependent-credit-and-eitc
Effects of the 2021 Expanded Child Tax Credit
Ben Lourie. 2022 4 4. SSRN.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3990385
Unconditional Cash Transfers and Maternal Employment: Evidence from the Baby’s First Years Study
Maria Sauval et al. 2022 11 30. SSRN.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4297310
Effects of the Expanded Child Tax Credit on Employment Outcomes
Ananat et al. 2023 8 15. SSRN.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4534402
ECONOMIC MOBILITY IN AMERICA A STATE-OF-THE-ART PRIMER
Scott Winship. 2021 11. Archbridge Institute.
Year-End Tax Policy Priority: Expand the Child Tax Credit for the 19 Million Children Who Receive Less Than the Full Credit
Chuck Marr et al. 2022 12 7. Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
What’s Going on with the Child Tax Credit Debate?
Alex Durante and Erica York. 2021 10 19. Tax Foundation.
Putting the Money Where the Working Families Are
Oren Cass. 2024 1 25. American Compass.
https://americancompass.org/putting-the-money-where-the-working-families-are
The Work Incentive and Employment Effects of Eliminating the Child Tax Credit’s Annual Income Requirement
Kevin Corinth et al. 2024 1. AEI.
Remarks on Family Affordability at AEI
Oren Cass. American Compass. 2023 6 22.
https://americancompass.org/remarks-on-family-affordability-at-aei
This Silliness of the “Cost of Thriving Index”
Michael J. Hicks. 2023 2 18. The Country Economist. Substack.
https://michaeljhicks.substack.com/p/this-silliness-of-the-cost-of-thriving
This viral chart doesn’t explain much about middle-class living standards
Matthew Yglesias. 2020 2 25. Vox.com.
https://www.vox.com/2020/2/25/21151335/oren-cass-cost-of-thriving
An Alternative Analysis to Oren Cass’s Flawed “Cost of [Not] Thriving Index” with a Much Different Conclusion
Mark J. Perry. 2020 2 28. AEI.
The Cost-of-Thriving Index: A Reply
Oren Cass. 2020 3 5. Medium.
https://medium.com/@orencass/the-cost-of-thriving-index-a-reply-c100266dfb82
The Cost of Thriving Has Fallen: Correcting and Rejecting the American Compass Cost-of-Thriving Index
Scott Winship and Jheremy Horpedahl. 2023 6. AEI.
https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/The-Cost-of-Thriving-Has-Fallen.pdf?x85095
What Republicans’ ‘Family Feud’ Gets Wrong About Parenting in America
Abby M. Mccloskey. 2023 9 5. Politico.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/09/05/republican-family-feud-00113823
RELEASE: Family Affordability – Building Social Capital at Home
Social Capital Campaign.
https://www.socialcapitalcampaign.com/social-capital/buildingsocialcapitalathome
FAMILY AFFORDABILITY
Abby Mccloskey. 2022 9. Social Capital Campaign.
Work Requirements Hurt Children
Will Wilkinson. 2021 3 10. Model Citizen.
https://modelcitizen.substack.com/p/work-requirements-hurt-children
Oren Cass’s Chart of Doom
Robert Verbruggen. 2020 2 22. National Review.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/02/oren-cass-chart-of-doom
The Cost of Thriving
Oren Cass. American Affairs. 2020 2 20.
https://manhattan.institute/article/the-cost-of-thriving
Working Women: Data from the Past, Present and Future
Christine Machovec 2023 3 15. U.S. Department of Labor Blog.
https://blog.dol.gov/2023/03/15/working-women-data-from-the-past-present-and-future
Labor Force Participation Rate – Women (LNS11300002)
FRED Economic Data. ST. Louis Fed. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS11300002
Women’s labor force participation rates by age of youngest child since 1975
Women’s Bureau. U.S. Department of Labor.
1. Trends in income and wealth inequality
Juliana Menasce Horowitz, ruth Igielnik and Rakesh Kochhar. 2020 1 9. Pew Research Center.
https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2020/01/09/trends-in-income-and-wealth-inequality
How has wealth distribution in the US changed over time?
USAFacts Team. 2023 11 13. USA FACTS.
https://usafacts.org/articles/how-has-wealth-distribution-in-the-us-changed-over-time
5 Facts About Rising Income Inequality in the United States
Peter G. Peterson Foundation.
https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2024/01/5-facts-about-rising-income-inequality-in-the-united-states
The expanded child tax credit expires Friday after Congress failed to renew it
Deepa Shivaram. 2021 12 30. NPR. KERA.
https://www.npr.org/2021/12/30/1069143123/expanded-child-tax-credit-expires-friday-congress
Child Tax Credit 2024: Requirements, Who Qualifies
Sabrina Parys and Tina Orem. 2024 4 16. nerdwallet.
https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/taxes/qualify-child-child-care-tax-credit
Today’s New Homes Are 1,000 Square Feet Larger Than in 1973, and the Living Space per Person Has Doubled over Last 40 Years
Mark J. Perry. 2014 2 26. AEI.
Are Houses More Expensive Today, or…Way Bigger?
Katie Gatti Tassin. MONEY WITH Katie. 9 26.
https://moneywithkatie.com/blog/are-houses-more-expensive-or-bigger
Houses Are Still Big. Prices Are Much Bigger.
Michael Kolomatsky. The New York Times. 2023 8 17.
The Truth About Real Estate Prices
Jean Folger. 2024 1 8. Investopedia.
Square Foot Prices More than Double Inflation in 2022
Natalia Siniavskaia. 2023 11 9. National Association of Home Builders.
https://eyeonhousing.org/2023/11/square-foot-prices-more-than-double-inflation-in-2022
Number of Renters Burdened by Housing Costs Reached a Record High in 2021
Peyton Whitney. 2023 2 1. Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University.
https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/number-renters-burdened-housing-costs-reached-record-high-2021
American Families Face a Growing Rent Burden
Pew. 2018 4 19.
America Has a Right to Housing … for the Rich
Algernon Austin. 2018 12 10. Demos.
https://www.demos.org/blog/america-has-right-housing-rich
Addressing the Affordable Housing Crisis Requires Expanding Rental Assistance and Adding Housing Units
Peggy Bailey. 2022 10 27. Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
Rental Housing Unaffordability: How Did We Get Here?
Whitney Airgood-Obrycki. 2024 3 26. Joint Center for Housing Studies.
https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/rental-housing-unaffordability-how-did-we-get-here
The 2023 Cost-of-Thriving Index
Oren Cass. 2023 2. American Compass.
https://americancompass.org/2023-cost-of-thriving-index
College Tuition Inflation: Compare The Cost Of College Over Time
Brianna McGurran. 2023 5 9. Forbes.
https://www.forbes.com/advisor/student-loans/college-tuition-inflation
The Rising Cost of College in the U.S.
Govind Bhutada. 2021 2 3. Datastream. Visualcapitalist.
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/rising-cost-of-college-in-u-s
College prices aren’t skyrocketing—but they’re still too high for some
Phillip Levine. 2023 4 24. BROOKINGS.
Ignore the sticker price: How have college prices really changed?
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/ignore-the-sticker-price-how-have-college-prices-really-changed
Phillip Levine. 2024 4 12. BROOKINGS.
Trends in College Pricing: Highlights
CollegeBoard.
Why family-friendly policies don’t boost birth rates
John Burn-Murdoch. 2024 3 29. Financial Times.
https://www.ft.com/content/838eeb4e-3bff-4693-990f-ff3446cac9b2
Who’s Minding the Kids? Child Care Arrangements: Spring 2011
Lynda Laughlin. 2023 4. Household Economic Studies.
https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/2013/demo/p70-135.pdf