Conservatives are often big proponents of ending the “marriage penalty” on federal income taxes. Basically, the “penalty” refers to the higher tax rates that married couples face than if they have filed their taxes individually as “heads of household.”
Yesterday, the Innovation Lab team met with our free tax preparation team, who are planning their 2010 [...]
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A Marriage Penalty I Didn’t Know About
Posted in Economic Security & Advancement, Poverty, tagged EITC, marriage, Poverty, tax on October 16, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Into and Out of Poverty
Posted in Poverty, tagged family, marriage, Poverty on September 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I posted yesterday about the links between single parenthood and poverty and referred at the end to the relatively small portion of people that fall into poverty by becoming single parents. Well the Urban Institute just dropped a great research brief into my inbox summarizing the research on poverty “spells.” Just in the interest of [...]
“Broken Families Cost Taxpayers”
Posted in Poverty, tagged divorce, family, marriage on September 16, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The Tulsa World reports on a state legislative panel’s hearing yesterday on reducing divorce and births to unwed parents. I know the author isn’t responsible for writing the headline, but the headline editor definitely captured the spirit of the article with the headline “Broken Families Cost Taxpayers.”
So that I don’t bury the lede here, let [...]
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