“My mother saved our home with a minimum wage job. But in the 1960s, a minimum wage job would support a family of three above the poverty line. Not today. Not even close. I understood right then that people can work hard, they can play by the rules, and they can still take a hard smack.” PeopleStillsHardPlayHomeRealityTodayJobsMotherThreePoliticsLinesWorkJusticeMoneyFamilyPovertyHistorySupportGenerationsPolicyHard WorkEthicsUnderstoodHuman RightsSavedIdeologyMinimum1960sCivilityMinimum WageSmackFood Stamps Author:Elizabeth Warren
“... what's been building since the 1980's is a new kind of social Darwinism that blames poverty and crime and the crisis of our youth on a breakdown of the family. That's what will last after this flurry on family values.” KindLastsValuesPoliticsSocialFamilyPovertyCrimeYouthBuildingCrisisBlameBreakdownDarwinismFamily ValuesSocial Darwinism Author:Stephanie Coontz
“Very early in my childhood I associated poverty, toil, unemployment, drunkenness, cruelty, quarreling, fighting, debts, jail with large families.” FightingFamilyPovertyChildhoodDebtCrueltyJailUnemploymentToilDrunkennessLarge Family Book:The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic Source: The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic