"This means the easiest way to get back to a one-income family is to lower womens’ wages again, so you probably shouldn’t wish for it."
There's no connection to this and the rest of your post. It also assumes that families don't need two incomes to stay out of poverty or off of assistance.
The easiest ways according to your post is to make a family poor or rich.
> Most families need two incomes in my experience.
Probably depends on the neighborhood - there's claims in this thread that single motherhood is up, but those can't both be true. (I don't have any evidence to add here.)
> The easiest ways according to your post is to make a family poor or rich.
Yes, but making someone poor's a lot easier. Murphy's law, y'know.
They can. I think you're missing one of my key parts - without assistance. It's highly likely single mothers are getting child support. It's possible they are getting assistance too.
Just look at the stats on how much people have saved in emergency funds and for retirement. That should show you the dire need for two incomes.
"This means the easiest way to get back to a one-income family is to lower womens’ wages again, so you probably shouldn’t wish for it."
There's no connection to this and the rest of your post. It also assumes that families don't need two incomes to stay out of poverty or off of assistance.
The easiest ways according to your post is to make a family poor or rich.