Can strengthening the family bridge the economic divide?

Would strengthening marriage and family help to restore the American dream?

The American Enterprise Institute is out with a new report that attempts to answer that question. It's titled "For richer, for poorer: How family structures economic success in America."

This hour, the report co-author W. Bradford Wilcox of the University of Virginia explains his findings and a then a diverse panel responds to his ideas: Michelle Singletary of the Washington Post, Ross Douthat of the New York Times and Jordan Weissmann of Slate.

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