George Will: What if Major Causes of Poverty Are Behavioral?
“Of the several causes of descent, there and elsewhere, into the intergenerational transmission of poverty, one was paramount: family disintegration. Some causes of this remain unclear, but something now seems indisputable: Among today’s young adults, the ‘success sequence’ is insurance against poverty. The evidence is in ‘The Millennial Success Sequence,’ published by the American Enterprise Institute and the Institute for Family Studies and written by Wendy Wang of the IFS and W. Bradford Wilcox of the University of Virginia and AEI.”