Despite the popular guidance, marriage can be an economic risk for single parents with unstable partners. simarik/iStock/Getty Images Plus February 21, 2024 Marriage is not as effective an anti-poverty strategy as you’ve been led to believe Eleanor Brown, Fordham University; June Carbone, University of Minnesota, and Naomi Cahn, University of Virginia Marriage on its own won’t do away with child poverty, and in fact it can create even more instability for low-income families.
Not everyone’s up for converting this vegetable into a side or main dish. duckycards/E+ via Getty Images March 23, 2022 Food pantries that give away stuff people can’t or won’t cook have an ‘acorn squash problem’ Diana Cuy Castellanos, University of Dayton and John C. Jones, Virginia Commonwealth University Efforts to make donated food as healthy as possible backfire if the recipients throw it out.
The predictions were for a massive downturn in state finances because of COVID-19 … but the predictions were wrong. tang90246/ iStock / Getty Images Plus April 28, 2021 Why states didn’t go broke from the pandemic Raymond Scheppach, University of Virginia The headlines were inescapable: States faced a financial disaster of epic proportions because of COVID-19. The predictions were wrong.