Excellent book. Why dont we start off just by having you tell our viewers about your professional background and interests . What led you to write the book . Sure so i am an economist. Ive been the economics faculty at the University Maryland for 17 years now before that i trained at mit. Ive long been interested in these types of issues related to inequality and poverty, the economics of families and Child Wellbeing in the us. How i came to write this book was ive been studying these issues for 20 years and. It has become abundantly clear to me that what has happened to Family Structure in the us, the dramatic change in the way kids are being raised in the us in terms of the increase in the share of kids living with only one parent, thats, you know, more than one in five kids in the us now, more than in any other in the world, its become so clear to me that this is really a part of whats driving differences in the in the us. Its not been good for kids wellbeing and their economic traj
It is a pleasure to have this conversation with you. Good to be with you. We are here to discuss your book. Ricans stopped getting married and started falling behind behind. Excellent book. Why dont we start off just by having you tell our viewers about your professional background and interests . What led you to write the book . Sure so i am an economist. Ive been the economics faculty at the University Maryland for 17 years now before that i trained at mit. Ive long been interested in these types of issues related to inequality and poverty, the economics of families and Child Wellbeing in the us. How i came to write this book was ive been studying these issues for 20 years and. It has become abundantly clear to me that what has happened to Family Structure in the us, the dramatic change in the way kids are being raised in the us in terms of the increase in the share of kids living with only one parent, thats, you know, more than one in five kids in the us now, more than in any other
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Of law and immigration and an Immigration Lawyer. He has appeared in the New York Times, wall street journal, npr, the guardian the guardian and many other mediums welcome him. Thank you. Hey, thanks for. The introduction and to all folks here at books and books for this lovely welcome this evening. And thank all of you for for joining me its its always a pleasure to be back in south florida. I definitely dont get the opportunity to do so often so so im grateful for the chance to get to spend some time here with with you all this so welcome the the ratchet in in defense of the criminal alien. This is a book clearly focused on migrants and and as we go through the year and we we begin to approach the november elections were going to hearing a lot more migrants. Weve already heard a good amount. We know that both President Biden and President Trump are planning visits to the usmexican border and various of texas. Just this week. And so were going to be hearing a lot about migrants from p
And Civil Liberties at Ohio State University Moritz College of law and immigration and an Immigration Lawyer. He has appeared in the New York Times, wall street journal, npr, the guardian the guardian and many other mediums welcome him. Thank you. Hey, thanks for. The introduction and to all folks here at books and books for this lovely welcome this evening. And thank all of you for for joining me its its always a pleasure to be back in south florida. I definitely dont get the opportunity to do so often so so im grateful for the chance to get to spend some time here with with you all this so welcome the the ratchet in in defense of the criminal alien. This is a book clearly focused on migrants and and as we go through the year and we we begin to approach the november elections were going to hearing a lot more migrants. Weve already heard a good amount. We know that both President Biden and President Trump are planning visits to the usmexican border and various of texas. Just this week.