What Are Families For? - Boston Review
A liberal economist and a family abolitionist agree: our economic system makes human flourishing depend on social units it can't sustain.
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A liberal economist and a family abolitionist agree: our economic system makes human flourishing depend on social units it can't sustain.
Remember how the nation’s official poverty rate fell to its lowest point on record during the pandemic? That’s over.
It has become politically correct on the left to blame systemic changes in the economy for disappearing jobs and other pressures on family life that hit Black families.
Massive relief efforts during the pandemic offer lessons in how government can help people in crisis without increasing their dependency.
Remember how the nation’s official poverty rate fell to its lowest point on record during the pandemic? That’s over. Let us recall for a moment the vast a