77%

I heard an interesting, if unsurprising statistic on the radio this morning. 77% of households in Iowa have both parents or the only parent working full time. Iowa is fourth on the list of states with the highest percentage of working parents. Only 23% of households in Iowa have a stay-at-home parent raising the children. So don't tell me the economy is great. When a family can't survive on one income, that's a major societal problem. It's been like that for far too long. I would like to see a shift in our labor ideology. Let's make it feasible for both parents to work twenty hours a week, share childraising duties, and still make enough money to survive. Right now, that's not even close to possible.