“ [J]ob satisfaction is generally much lower in Europe than it is in the United States. A 2002 international survey showed that, while 51 percent of American adults reported being completely satisfied or very satisfied with their jobs, only 36 percent of the Dutch gave this answer, as well as 35 percent of the British, 33 percent of the Spanish, and 32 percent of the French.
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“ Whereas fewer than 10 percent of children living with two parents live below the poverty line, about 37 percent of those living with single mothers do. Kids born out of wedlock are particularly likely to wind up in poverty. In 2007, half of all women who had children out of wedlock were in poverty, ensuring that their children wound up there, too.
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“ The media promised a depression and all we got was yet another lousy quarter of economic expansion.
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“ And when a pollster calls and asks: Hey, how do you think things are going? Like unholy hell, you answer. That’s how things are going. Don’t you watch the news? Polls say that consumer confidence is plummeting. Forget recession, this is a depression.
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