Publish family statistics monthly and create an office for them
What the document says“Congress should establish an Assistant Commissioner for Family”
The chapter notes that labor market data is published monthly but data on the family is published at best annually and often a year late. It asks that marriage and fertility rates, the share of children living with both biological parents, the cost of a basket of middle-class essentials and the share of families whose highest earner makes more than twice the poverty threshold be measured and reported monthly, that a pilot survey be established, and that the Consumer Price Index basket include family-essential goods.
What the document actually says“Congress should establish an Assistant Commissioner for Family”
Congress should create a new post at the statistics bureau. It would cover the family.
The government counts jobs and prices every month. It counts family life far less often. The book wants that measured monthly too.
The chapter prints its own dissent. An 'Alternative View' passage argues that while family metrics are important, monthly statistics would add little, could cause unnecessary confusion and concern, and that funding would be better spent making the annual figures timelier.
Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. Nothing indexed comes close. No indexed document creates a family statistics post at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, changes what family data the government publishes or how often it appears, starts a pilot survey, or alters the Consumer Price Index basket. The candidates matched on common words only. That is a record of a search, not a finding that nothing has happened: an act this site does not hold, or one that answers the proposal in words unlike its own, would not be caught by it.