Can strengthening the family bridge the economic divide?
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Would strengthening marriage and family help to restore the American dream?
The American Enterprise Institute is out with a new report that attempts to answer that question. It's titled "For richer, for poorer: How family structures economic success in America."
This hour, the report co-author W. Bradford Wilcox of the University of Virginia explains his findings and a then a diverse panel responds to his ideas: Michelle Singletary of the Washington Post, Ross Douthat of the New York Times and Jordan Weissmann of Slate.
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