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By JD Prose
More than 2 million mailers, including almost 39,000 in Pennsylvania, from a nonprofit organization that encourages voter registration will be landing in mailboxes across the country on Wednesday.
According to the Washington, D.C.-based nonpartisan Voter Participation Center, 2.2 million Americans in 23 states, and 38,600 Pennsylvanians, will receive the mailers.
By David Brady, Ryan M. Finnigan, and Sabine Hubgen
No group is as linked to poverty in the American mind as single mothers. For decades, politicians, journalists and scholars have scrutinized the reasons poor couples fail to use contraception, have children out of wedlock and do not marry.
When the American Enterprise Institute and the Brookings Institution formed a bipartisan panel of prominent poverty scholars to write a “Consensus Plan for Reducing Poverty” in 2015, its first recommendation was to “promote a new cultural norm surrounding parenthood and marriage.”
The reality, however, is that single motherhood is not the reason we have unusually high poverty in the United States, compared with other rich democracies.
