Tag: women
The brief’s key findings are: Traditionally, Social Security has supported family caregivers – typically women – through a spousal benefit. Today, however, many women are not eligible for this benefit because they are not married or they qualify for their own worker’s benefit. As a result, many mothers receive little to no support to offset lost earnings…
In the 1960s, half of all wives were housewives, and their husbands often earned enough money to support a family. Today, these traditional families are a rarity and two incomes have become essential to surviving economically. A new joint report by the American Enterprise Institute and the Brookings Institution argues that poor and working-class families’ increasingly…