At the age of 11, Olaudah Equiano — the son of an Igbo elder in what is now Nigeria — found himself in a slave ship’s cramped quarters. His autobiography describes the horror: “The closeness of the place, and the heat of the climate… almost suffocated us… the air soon became unfit for respiration… and […]
Government policies that penalize marriage hurt lower middle class families the most, leading many to avoid getting married, a new study released Tuesday discovered. In an Institute for Family Studies and American Enterprise Institute joint report titled “Marriage, Penalized: Does Social-Welfare Policy Affect Family Formation?” scholars W. Bradford Wilcox, Joseph P. Price, and Angela Rachidi, […]
