Worse Outcomes for Children in Post-Roe America, Global Debt Crises, and More

July 1, 2022

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As many as 28 states are expected to ban or restrict abortion after the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. The states with abortion bans or restrictions rank among the worst in America in terms of child well-being and public spending that supports children, Isabel Sawhill and Morgan Welch find.

At the end of 2021, governments in low- and middle-income economies owed an estimated $9.3 trillion to foreign creditors. With roughly 40 low-income economies and about a half-dozen middle-income economies now in debt distress or at high risk of it, the inherently flawed global debt-restructuring system must be fixed, Indermit Gill and Lee Buchheit say.

After centuries of discrimination and economic exclusion, the U.S. racial wealth gap remains stubbornly large. In a new paper studying Americans born in the 1940s through 1960s, Ember Smith, Ariel Gelrud Shiro, Christopher Pulliam, and Richard Reeves show that the median white American in their early thirties had $29,000 more wealth than the median Black American of the same age.

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