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...statistics speak for themselves: according to the National Bureau of Economic Research, in 2006, only 7 percent of people living in households headed by a married individual were poor, while households with an unmarried leader (83 percent of whom were female) boasted poverty rates of 40.3 percent. The authors of the NBER’s June 2006 digest further concluded that changes in household structure—namely, the increase in female-headed families—were largely to blame for the rise in domestic poverty rates since the 1980s. Due to the myths perpetuated...
There is little doubt that the United States—and much of the rest of the world—is facing an economic and financial crisis of historic proportions. In the fourth quarter of 2008, the American economy shrank by 6.2 percent, and last month the official unemployment rate reached 8.1 percent, a figure not seen in a quarter-century. Nor has the Obama administration been idle. On Feb. 17, the president signed into law the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which calls for the government to spend $789 billion over the next two years in an attempt...
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...Kamrava from 1993 to 1995, says when he joined the practice the pregnancy success rates were low. "The culture system they were using was not up to par," says Scodras. "I bumped up the pregnancy rate from around 10% by about 25%. So we were running about 35 percent by the time I left." (See the top 10 scientific discoveries...