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every Black man’s worst nightmare
07.20.09 | Permalink | Comment?

The title alone makes me cringe: Childless man freed after serving time for child support violations.
Yeah read that again, this dude has no kids and has gone to jail, no once, but TWICE over child support violations. Basically what happened was dude was with some chick, she got pregnant and told him it was his. [...]
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No Help for Single Fathers
10.20.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

yet again.
One of the projects the research center I’m employed at is working on the the evaluation of a noncustodial parent earned income tax credit in New York City. The way it works now, custodial parents (read: mothers) get a tax credit and noncustodial parents (read: fathers) don’t.
This experimental tax credit is geared towards low-income [...]
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Missing Men
08.12.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Yesterday the Boston Globe had an interesting article on the absence of men, in particular Black men, in antipoverty policy. Children have always been considered “deserving poor” because they are largely helpless, and women have long been considered deserving because their plight was usually the result of widowdom. For the most part, Americans [...]