American Experiment on Families
Families Reports
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Grasping and Reducing Poverty in Minnesota: Essays in Celebration of John Brandl’s Uncommon Quest for Common Ground
FOREWORD Laura Bloomberg, Ph.D. Dean Humphrey School of Public Affairs University of Minnesota Fifty years ago, and just shortly before his assassination, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King launched ...
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Restoring a Marriage Norm
View full report. Introduction Marriage is in decline in America, to the detriment of individuals and society alike, and yet we do essentially nothing about it. In this paper, I contest the common v...
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Was Trump and Clinton’s Campaign Silence Regarding Family Fragmentation Golden? A Symposium
View Full Report Compiled & with an Introduction by Mitch Pearlstein Essays By: Paul Allick, Harry Boyte, Barry Casselman, Frank Cerra, Chuck Chalberg, William Doherty, William Duncan, Dave Durenb...
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Families Articles
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After an ugly election season, can we celebrate what unites us?
Americans get along better than we give ourselves credit for — and our musicians and sports teams give us a place to celebrate that. Much has been said this year, especially in recent weeks, about t...
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Transgender Conformity at Nova Classical Academy
First Things | December 2016 Nova Classical Academy, a K–12 charter school in St. Paul, Minnesota, is the sort of school that most parents seeking a first-rate education for their children can only ...
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Americans of all sorts get along better than sour clichés have it
I rise in praise of superficial relationships among America’s 320 million or so men, women, and younger people, regardless of their race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, social clas...
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Families Posts
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Voluntary Pre-K held at 2017 level, but does not target neediest children
Minnesota is spending enormous sums of money on education programs for very young children, but the state’s mission is muddled and the results discouraging. Plus, the policy forces private child car...
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A Burden Don Fraser Learned to Bear
My favorite personal memory of Don Fraser, who died earlier this week at 95. Sometime in the mid-1980s, Don, who was then mayor of Minneapolis, said something about “unsupported women.” By which...
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By Far the Largest Observable Factor
The number of scholars and journalists who write frequently about the effects of family fragmentation in the United States is not large; certainly not as large as the severity of the problem suggests ...
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Has Mobility in the United States Really Declined?
Drawing on a brilliant book by Berkeley’s Neil Gilbert, I recently (April 25) wrote about how family fragmentation adversely affects economic and social mobility. But what about perpetual claims t...
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Save for Senator Lee, Republicans are Pretty Much Silent, Too
Sen. Mike Lee of Utah was on CNN the other morning and I mentioned to my wife Diane that I liked him for several reasons, one being he’s among the very few people in Washington who talk bravely abou...
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