married couples with children are more than twice as likely to file for bankruptcy as their childless counterparts. A divorced woman raising a youngster is nearly three times more likely to file for bankruptcy than her single friend who never had children

divi_g

Nezinu, man tā loģika aiz raksta apgalvojuma liekas tāda nedaudz dīvaina. Drīzāk varētu runāt par to, ka amerikāņiem dzīves dārdzība ir būtiski augusi pēdējos daždesmit gados.

watt

nezinu kas ir mainījies, bet skaitļi runā:

In 1981, about 69,000 women had filed for bankruptcy. The data on my printout indicated that by 1999 that figure had jumped to nearly 500,000 — an unimaginable leap.
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In just twenty years, the number of women filing petitions for bankruptcy had, in reality, increased by 662 percent.