[PW] Stepes to leave poverty study

[S M Colowick]

In 1999 the Heritage Foundation put out a highly publicized report
touting marriage as the (not a) answer to poverty:

http://www.heritage.org/Research/Family/BG1283.cfm

The author is presumably referring to some of his many sources when he
writes: "Numerous academic and social science researchers have
demonstrated how the path to achieving a decent and stable income is
still the traditional one: complete school, get a job, get married,
then have children, in that order."

smc

On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 1:51 AM, JT Thompson <jtthompson at eircom.net> wrote:
> A bit of a difficult one.
>
> There was a study some years ago that described a series - or rather,
> a number - of steps that were successful in allowing people to leave
> poverty. One was, oddly, getting married; not living permanently with
> someone else but actually getting married.
>
> Has anyone any idea what this study might be?
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