A Workable Family: Childcare, Income Supports, Jobs

Millions of families with children— those who don’t belong to the affluent upper crust, and even some of those who do—are having a tough time in America today. Their problems deserve a place on our national agenda, and policies designed to help them should be debated as part of the election campaign. Child care is a major part of the problem. Another part is the welfare system and the whole question of single parenthood and what to do about it.

The Democrats need a family pol...