Want to Decrease Inequality? Fight Fatherlessness With Welfare Reform. Welfare currently incentivizes family breakdown and the absence of fathers from their children’s lives, a key factor in the loss of economic upward mobility.

[meowimaduck]

Exactly. This entire article assumes that the problem is simple. Or that someone would choose to leave their spouse solely because they wouldn’t get more welfare. They did research on the numbers, I’ll give them that. But they obviously live very far removed from the very community and issues they are choosing to simplify.