Poor Economy Creates an Influx of Mr. Moms

Conventional wisdom holds that stay-at-home moms do so because they can afford not to work.

We hear all the time about how global millennials work, travel, date and shop, but we rarely hear about how they mother. To reach this critical market, it’s worth examining the choices of Chinese and American customers in the demographic, born in late 1970s to the early 2000s.

Are bad jobs at bad wages better than no jobs at all? Should the US demand third world economies pay "living wages"? If so, and if countries don't oblige, should the US impose tariffs so the US does not lose jobs to such countries. Moral Outrage Over Free Trade This is what I think....

Apparently it is somewhat unethical in the feminist world for women to go to the Ivy League and then become a full-time mom.   I know several women who have Ivy League undergrad or graduate degrees and have, for at least part of their lives, been full time moms.  I am married to one, for example.  I have a few thoughts on this:

People will be paying more and getting less from their governments as health costs and pension obligations will force state and local governments to adjust their budgets over the next 50 years, according to a new report. The new report from the Government Accountability Office, a nonpartisan congressional agency that audits federal programs, paints a dreary picture of the future of municipal finances in the United States.

A recent report by Deloitte, The Hidden Costs of U.S. Health Care: Consumer Discretionary Health Care Spending provides some interesting data.