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2019-03-24 Economy

‘The Two-Income Trap' by Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi

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Posted by Besoeker 2019-03-24 12:08|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Good stuff. Much to ponder here.

Posted by trailing wife 2019-03-24 13:08|| 2019-03-24 13:08|| Front Page Top

#2 Bullshit.

They are just playing games with semantics and statistics. In 1860 just 7 percent of women with children at home were in the labor force

Ever seem what a farmer's wife with kids was doing? God forbid they have freedom of choice right Lizzie?

Posted by AlanC 2019-03-24 13:11|| 2019-03-24 13:11|| Front Page Top

#3 Shorter Fauxcahontas: "They should stay home in the tepee, raising the papooses and scalping/skinning the white devils"

Posted by Frank G 2019-03-24 13:27|| 2019-03-24 13:27|| Front Page Top

#4 Reduce the federal debt, stop squandering taxpayer money, lower the rate of inflation and maybe some of these women can afford to stay home with their children.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-03-24 14:41|| 2019-03-24 14:41|| Front Page Top

#5 Re #3: More like Fauxcahontas: "They should stay in the Teepee, abort their papooses, and skin and scalp the white devils"

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2019-03-24 15:04|| 2019-03-24 15:04|| Front Page Top

#6 It isn't a trap if you don't spend the extra money. But it usually doesn't turn out that way.

It makes sense to have some reserve capacity somewhere.

That isn't even counting the importance of having parents, and not strangers, raise the kids,

Posted by james 2019-03-24 15:04|| http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com 2019-03-24 15:04|| Front Page Top

#7 IMHO. Taxpayer subsidized (use it or lose it) creches AKA government "schools" are there to ensure as many work as possible, which boosts land prices.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-03-24 16:28|| 2019-03-24 16:28|| Front Page Top

#8 It isn't a trap if you don't spend the extra money. But it usually doesn't turn out that way.

When my mother went back to work, school, and teaching — purely for her sanity after deliberately having four children in four years — her entire salary and more went to pay for the increased expenses. Daddy didn’t care because she was much happier, and as a consequence so was he, but there was no pretense that she was adding to the net family income.

And this after she sewed most of her work wardrobe instead of spending money in the shops.

Posted by trailing wife 2019-03-24 21:15|| 2019-03-24 21:15|| Front Page Top

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