Cross-posted with author permission from Parents.com » In an 11th hour set of furious negotiations, Congress and President Obama reached an agreement on the so-called “fiscal cliff,” a self-imposed set of deadlines that would have resulted in automatic tax increases and across-the-board spending cuts in the absence of a deal. In many respects, the deal [...]
By now, most people who pay attention to the news have heard about the “fiscal cliff.” The problem: Most people don’t know what the fiscal cliff actually is, or how it will impact their families. The term “fiscal cliff” is shorthand for a series of events that will occur at the end of 2012 that [...]
Cross posted with author permission from the Huffington Post » In 2010, China and the United States each conducted a national census. China found that 76.0 million of its citizens were children under the age of 5, about four times the number the United States has, 20.2 million. No real surprise there: China’s overall population [...]
Crossposted with author permission from the Huffington Post. As the right grumbles and gossips about Chief Justice John Roberts’ majority opinion upholding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the left largely celebrates and ponders it, the response of our two most populous states—California and Texas—will ultimately test the effectiveness of the country’s [...]
Re-posted with author permission from the Huffington Post. Americans, or at least the chattering class, have gotten all riled up about motherhood twice in the past few weeks. First, there was the kerfuffle between Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen and Ann Romney about whether Mrs. Romney, a stay-at-home mother, could truly understand the plight of working [...]
Cross posted with author permission from the Huffington Post. Ahhh…to think that I dream of the early 1990s when student loans averaged only $10,000 and the unemployment rate for recent college grads was a mere 3.3 percent Last week, I took a week out off of blogging to spend time giving final lecturers for my [...]
Cross posted with author permission from the Huffington Post. Wow. So many readers of my last blog post thought I was endorsing Rick Santorum, his policy prescriptions and all the anti-gay and anti-women statements he has made when I wrote that I’d miss him in the Presidential contest. Not at all. As I wrote, [...]
Next week, a very adult conversation begins at the U.S. Supreme Court, but much of it will have an enormous impact on children. For three days, lawyers will argue over the constitutionality of two major provisions in the Affordable Care Act—the so-called “individual mandate,” requiring most Americans to have health insurance, and the Medicaid expansion, [...]
Ever wonder what happens to a worker who becomes disabled for weeks from injuries in a car accident? Or the worker who has a baby but no maternity leave? Or the worker whose parent, suffering from Alzheimer’s, falls and hits his head and can no longer live alone? Here’s what happens, and neither option is [...]
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