How Welfare Programs Discourage Marriage: The Case of Pre-K Education Subsidies
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How Welfare Programs Discourage Marriage: The Case of Pre-K Education Subsidies
A big reason why is that we insist on supporting policies that accommodate poverty, not ones that disrupt it. Our largest cash assistance program is the Earned Income Tax Credit, which props up corporate profits and depresses wages. Our biggest affordable housing initiative is the Housing Choice Voucher Program, which, by paying a portion of a fami
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Our biggest antipoverty program for the working poor is the Earned Income Tax Credit. In 2021, 25 million workers and families received this subsidy, the average payment being $2,411.[36]
Matthew Desmond • Poverty, by America
Roughly one in three families headed by a single mother is poor, compared to just one in seventeen married families.[30] This disparity has led some to conclude that single parenthood is a major cause of poverty in America.
Matthew Desmond • Poverty, by America
According to Restrepo-Echavarria and her peers at the St. Louis Fed, this economically-driven shift in marriage preferences accounts for approximately half of the increase in household income inequality between 1980 and 2020 — a figure so profound it almost seems unbelievable. “This is a huge thing,” says Restrepo-Echavarria. “If inequality is larg... See more
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recognize their increasing sexual and economic emancipation, but to channel those energies into the family.