INCOME INEQUALITY OR FAMILY INEQUALITY? CURT: The degree to which inequality is

INCOME INEQUALITY OR FAMILY INEQUALITY?

CURT: The degree to which inequality is attributable to income or family reproduction is the difference between left and right positions on the economy. I suggest, that as usual, the right is more correct than the left. Since if the right position was corrected, the right would tolerate redistribution.

—“among the wealthiest 20 percent of whites, divorce rates and single parenthood have returned to 1950s levels after a blip upward in the 1970s. But among the poorest 30 percent of whites — and among much larger percentages of Hispanics and blacks — divorce and single parenthood have become a way of life. That is exacerbated by the recent decline in college attendance by young men and the dearth of job opportunities for less educated men. That makes them less marriageable and less prepared to take responsibility for children they may father. Brookings Institution scholar Isabel Sawhill [states that] we are becoming a “bifurcated society,” not just because of income inequality but because of family formation patterns.”—