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Social Welfare Policy Scholar

Douglas Besharov

1 article 2015

Douglas Besharov is a scholar at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy and a former resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. He is known for his research on social welfare policy, family policy, and poverty. He contributed to The Weekly Standard with analysis on marriage and family policy issues.

Discouraging Marriage

September 21, 2015 · Marriage, Obamacare, Welfare

Traditional marriage is in big trouble in the United States. Between 1960 and 2011, the share of white adults 18 and older who were married declined by 25 percent, while the declines for Hispanic and black adults were 35 percent and 50 percent respectively.