In fact, he writes, family structure is the “policy elephant in the room” amid discussions of income inequality, minimum wage, and the future of low-skill workers.
Family structure “should be treated as a serious economic challenge, regardless of where you fall on the political spectrum. If we’re going to have a robust discussion around income inequality—and we should—then we ought to put all the component parts on the table,” writes Wheelan, a senior lecturer and policy fellow at the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences and a senior lecturer in the Department of Economics.
Read the full opinion piece, published 4/2/14 by U.S. News & World Report.
