Finding the Time: Challenges Facing Working Families

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Finding the Time Challenges Facing Working
Families

• Heather Boushey
• Center for Economic and Policy Research
• 16 June 2006

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Figure 1. Labor supply of men and women, age 20
and over
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Figure 2. Annual hours of work in married
families in middle fifth of income distribution,
1979 2000
Source Mishel, Bernstein, and Allegretto, 2004.
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Figure 3. Growth in inflation-adjusted family
income
Source U.S. Census Bureau, Historical Income
Tables, Tables F1 F5 http//www.census.gov/hhes/
www/income/histinc/.
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Figure 4. Percent change in income without wives
earnings, 1979-2000
Source Mishel, Bernstein, and Allegretto, 2004.
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Figure 5. The two-income trap
Source Warren and Tyagi, 2005. The Two-Income
Trap, p. 51.
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Figure 6. The effect of children on womens
employment is not increasing
Source Boushey, 2005. Notes Sample is women
aged 25 to 45.