Occupation: Economist
More and more families today are sending both parents into the workforce - t's become the norm, it's what we now expect. The overwhelming majority of….
The fact is, out of all the possible reasons for going bankrupt, only three account for nearly 90 percent of bankruptcy: a job loss, a medical proble….
We all know that housing prices are going up, but what most people don't realize is that this has become a family problem. Housing prices are rising ….
Half of all people who go bankrupt cite a medical problem as one of the things that drove them into bankruptcy..
With both parents in the workforce 100 percent of the time, there's just no way to care for somebody on the side - either somebody has to take time o….
If a parent wants to choose where their kid goes to school, they can either fork over a whole bunch of money in tuition for private school or they ca….
The point is that families today are spending their money no more foolishly than their parents did. And yet they're five times more likely to go bank….
I don't see that as being good for America - that the country pits parents against everybody else..