Senator Mitt Romney’s recent proposal, the Family Security Act, aims to provide a dual benefit to families: a child allowance and a reformed Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). With the goals of incentivizing marriage and family, it has received praise across the political spectrum for its promise to alleviate poverty while “swapping out some programs that benefited these families in the past, and also by discontinuing the federal subsidy for high taxes in New York and California.”

According to a staff writer for the Yale Daily News, it is now a “necessity” that students experience, at one point or another, “a quarter life crisis.” Recent college graduates, and even recent admits, would be familiar with the symptoms of what The Muse calls an “intense period of soul-searching and stress”: insecurity, loneliness, and aimlessness. While the phenomenon may sound overblown and dramatic, it does disclose some of the anxieties of a generation faced with an increasingly uncertain world, both socially and economically.