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Family leave policies, though limited in scope and typically unpaid in the U.S., have hamstrung the progress toward gender wage parity since the 1990s, according to an economic paper. [Catarina [...]

Figuring out when and how to prioritize responsibilities at home and at work has a lot of people experiencing feelings of being overwhelmed and stretched to their limit. [Kierra Benson – [...]

Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his government have previously implemented a range of measures aimed at reversing Hungary’s declining birth rates, including financial incentives [...]

The child poverty rate has been reduced by more than half in the last 25 years. [Dana Thomson, Renee Ryberg et al. – Child Trends, December 2022.] READ MORE

Expected trends and policy considerations to boost revenue. [David Crowe, Jörg Haas, Valentine Millot, Łukasz Rawdanowicz and Sébastien Turban – OECD, 12 December 2022.] READ MORE

Scholars explore the efficacy of the existing American foster care system. [Alexandra Walsh, Mary Moynihan, and Elizabeth Yin – The Regulatory Review, 10 December 2022.] READ MORE

The historic decline in fertility will touch nearly every area of state budgets in the coming years. Some fiscal effects have already emerged, while others will be relatively minor or won’t be [...]

Today wealth and marriage are positively correlated, not because wealthy individuals are the only ones who can afford to get married, but because wealth increases the value of marriage. [Clara [...]

This report examines variation in job quality and identifies its positive association with well-being, health, work engagement and the financial sustainability of work. [Laura Botey et al. [...]

Companies have serious blind spots about their caregiver population and regularly make assumptions that can undermine their stated values and goals. [Katherine Goldstein – Harvard Business [...]