1. More than ever, families will depend on Mom's earnings to keep them afloat...
Originally, as wages stagnated the surge of women into the workforce masked the fact that their husbands' income wasn't enough to keep them in the middle class any more. Now we're at the point where the lower wages of the wives may be all that's keeping the family from outright destitution. If they can just hold on long enough. If both of them don't lose their jobs at the same time. If nobody in the family gets sick. If just a little bit of luck comes their way. If...
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