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[3] Fairchild,Caroline,“Number of Fortune 500 Women CEOS Reaches Historic High,”Fortune.com,June 6,2014,http://fortune.com/2014/06/03/number-of-for tune-500-women-ceos-reaches-historic-high/.
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[6] Luscombe,Belinda,“Workplace Salaries:At Last,Women on Top,”Time,September 1,2010.
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[9] Coontz,“The Myth of Male Decline,”New York Times,September 29,2012.
[10] Schwartz,Madeleine,“Opportunity Costs:The True Price of Internships,”Winter 2013,http://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/opportunity-costs-the-true-price-of-internships.
[11] DeParle,Jason,“Two Classes,Divided By I Do,”New York Times,July 7,2012,http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/us/two-classes-in-america-divided-by-i-do.html.
[12] Confessore,Nick,“Tramps Like Them:Charles Murray Examines the White Working Class in‘Coming Apart,’”New York Times,February 10,2012.
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[14] Arnold,Lisa and Christina Campbell,“The High Price of Being Single in America,”January 14,2013,http://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/01/the-high-price-of-being-single-in-america/267043/.
[15] Palmer,Kimberly,“Why Single People Are So Financially Stressed,”USNews.com,October 17,2010.
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[17] Coontz,Stephanie,“Progress at Work,But Mothers Still Pay a Price,”New York Times,June 8,2013,http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/09/opinion/sunday/coontz-richer-childless-women-are-making-the-gains.html.
[18] Wang,Wendy and Kim Parker and Paul Taylor,“Breadwinner Moms,”Pew Research Center,May 29,2013,http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2013/05/29/bread winner-moms/.
[19] Hymowitz,Kay and Jason S.Carroll,W.Bradford Wilcox,Kelleen Kaye,“Knot Yet Report:What Does the Rising Marriage Age Mean For Twentysomething Women,Men and Families?”2012,http://twentysomethingmarriage.org/.
[20] Castillo,Michelle,“Almost Half of First Babies in US Born to Unwed Mothers,”CBS News,March 15,2013,http://www.cbsnews.com/news/almost-half-of-first-babies-in-us-born-to-unwed-mothers/.
[21] Angier,Natalie,“The Changing American Family,”The New York Times,November 26,2013,http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/26/health/families.html.
[22] Sawhill,Isabel,“The New White Negro,”Washington Monthly,January/February 2013,http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/january_february_2013/fea tures/the_new_white_negro042050.php?page=all.
[23] Edin,Kathryn and Maria Kefalas,“Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage,”published by the National Poverty Center,March 12,2013,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRUj_C5JdHs.Talk stems from Promises I Can Keep by Edin and Kefalas.
[24] “Phyllis Schlafly Still Championing the Anti-Feminist Fight,”Tell Me More,NPR,March 30,2011,http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=134981902.
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[27] Rector,Robert,“Marriage:America’s Greatest Weapon Against Child Poverty,”The Heritage Foundation,September 5,2012,http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2012/09/marriage-americas-greatest-weapon-against-child-poverty.
[28] Mencimer,Stephanie,“The GOP’s Dead End Marriage Program,”Mother Jones,June 25,2012,http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/06/gops-dead-end-marriage-program.
[29] Covert,Bryce,“Heritage Panel tells Women that the Road to Economic Security is Marriage,not Feminism,”Think Progress,April 1,2014,http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/04/01/3421603/heritage-marriage-poverty/.
[30] “Minnesota Family Investment Program,”Minnesota Department of Human Services.
[31] Fremstad,Shawn and Melissa Boteach,“How Progressive Policies Can Strengthen Marriage and Family Life,”Family Studies,February 10,2015,http://family-stud ies.org/how-progressive-policies-can-strengthen-marriage-and-family-life/.
[32] “New Hope Project,”Promising Practices,http://www.promisingpractices.net/program.asp?programid=269.
[33] Gassman-Pines,Anna and Hirokazu Yoshikawa,“Five Year Effects of an Anti-Poverty Program on Marriage among Never-Married Mothers”Journal of Policy Analysis and Management,Vol.25,No.1,2006,11–30,http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/scmsAdmin/media/users/jr189/Five_Year_Effects_of_Antipoverty_Program.pdf.
[34] Covert,Bryce,“Senator Floats Idea to Penalize Low-Income Women Who Have Children,”Think Progress,January 29,2014,http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/01/29/3220881/rand-paul-welfare-cap-children/.
[35] “Rand Paul and the Extent of Marital Poverty in Kentucky,”CEPR Blog,Center for Economic and Policy Research,January 30,2014,http://www.cepr.net/blogs/cepr-blog/rand-paul-and-the-extent-of-marital-poverty-in-kentucky.Via Shawn Fremstad,“Temporary Assistance Doesn’t Help Impoverished Married Parents,”TalkPoverty.org,May 1,2015,http://talkpoverty.org/2015/05/01/temporary-assis tance/.
[36] Senate Bill 518,General Assembly of North Carolina,Session 2013,April 1,2013,http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2013/Bills/Senate/PDF/S518v1.pdf.
[37] Marcotte,Amanda,“The Worst State for Women?”The American Prospect,January 13,2013,http://prospect.org/article/worst-state-women.
[38] Hymowitz,Kay and Jason S.Carroll,W.Bradford Wilcox,Kelleen Kaye,“Knot Yet Report:What Does the Rising Marriage Age Mean For Twentysomething Women,Men and Families?”2012,http://twentysomethingmarriage.org/.
[39] Angier,Natalie,“The Changing American Family,”The New York Times,November 26,2013,http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/26/health/families.html.
[40] Edin,Kathryn and Maria Kefalas,“Unmarried with Children,”Contexts,Vol.4,No.2.,May,2005,http://ctx.sagepub.com/content/4/2/16.abstract.
[41] Edin,Kathryn and Maria Kefalas,Promises I Can Keep,185.
[42] Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study,cited by Kathryn Edin Study cited by Edin and Kefalas in“Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage”speech.
[43] Wang,Wendy,“The Best Cities for Women Looking to Marry,”Pew Research Center,October 2,2014,http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/10/02/the-best-and-worst-cities-for-women-looking-to-marry/.
[44] Knafo,Saki,“1 in 3 Black Men Will Go To Prison in their Lifetimes,Report Warns,”Huffington Post,October 4,2013,http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/04/racial-disparities-criminal-justice_n_4045144.html.
[45] Porter,Eduardo,“In the U.S.,Punishment Comes Before the Crimes,”The New York Times,April 29,2014.
[46] Coates,Ta-Nehesi,“The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration,”The Atlantic,October,2015.
[47] Via the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
[48] “Criminal Justice Fact Sheet,”National Association for the Advancement of Colored People,naacp.org,http://www.naacp.org/pages/criminal-justice-fact-sheet.
[49] Angier,Natalie,“The Changing American Family,”New York Times,November 26,2013,http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/26/health/families.html.
[50] Discussion between Marian Wright Edelman,Vivian Nixon,Glenn Martin,Bob Herbert on The Melissa Harris Perry Show,MSNBC,July 14,2012.
[51] “Know Your Rights:Housing and Arrests or Criminal Convictions,”The Bronx Defenders,October 2,1010,http://www.bronxdefenders.org/housing-and-arrests-or-criminal-convictions/.
[52] Alexander,Michelle,“The Zimmerman Mindset:Why Black Men Are the Permanent Undercaste,”July 29,2013.
[53] Ludden,Jennifer,“Can Marriage Save Single Mothers From Poverty?”Morning Edition,NPR,September 13,2012,http://www.npr.org/2012/09/13/161017580/can-marriage-save-single-mothers-from-poverty.
[54] Stevenson,Betsey and Justin Wolfers,“Valentine’s Day and the Economics of Love,”Bloomberg View,February 13,2013,http://www.bloombergview.com/arti cles/2013-02-13/valentine-s-day-and-the-economics-of-love.
[55] Fremstad,Shawn,“Temporary Assistance Doesn’t Help Impoverished Married Parents,”TalkPoverty.org,May 1,2015,http://talkpoverty.org/2015/05/01/tempo rary-assistance/.
[56] Edin and Kefalas,Promises I Can Keep,199.
[57] Coontz,Stephanie,“The Triumph of the Working Mother,”New York Times,June 1,2013,http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/02/opinion/sunday/coontz-the-triumph-of-the-working-mother.html?ref=global-home.
[58] Ibid.
[59] Boo,Katherine,“The Marriage Cure,”The New Yorker,August 18,2003.
[60] Coates,Ta-Nehesi,“Of Baguettes and Black Families,”The Atlantic,September 13,2013,http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/09/of-baguettes-and-black-families/279678/.