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Old Assumptions, New Realities: Economic Security for Working Families in the 21st CenturyWhen the SSA was passed in 1935… … families functioned as an economic and home production unit in which a male breadwinner earned a 'family wage' sufficient to support himself and dependents and a female homemaker provided full-time, uncompensated carework in the home. The organization of work and family life has changed dramatically in the last 70 years. The large majority of all women, including those with children, are now employed and far fewer adults – male or female – earn enough to provide the sole support for a family. As women have entered employment, total annual working hours at the household level have grown steadily. Americans work longer hours annually than their counterparts in any of the OECD countries and the care of dependent family members is increasingly ‘outsourced’ to child care, afterschool care and nursing home arrangements.
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