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Rewarding the Work of Individuals: A Counterintuitive Approach to Reducing Poverty and Strengthening Families   (2007)   Gordon Berlin     
Because the U.S. social welfare system is built around the needs of poor families with children, and largely excludes single adults who are poor (and disproportionately male), it creates disincentives to work and marry for some, aggravating these larger trends.
The Future of Children: A Publication of The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University   Electronic   Sociology

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Rewarding the Work of Individuals: A Counterintuitive Approach to Reducing Poverty and Strengthening Families   (2007)   Gordon Berlin     
Although recent changes have reduced marriage penalties in the tax and transfer system, some do remain, particularly when both spouses in a married-couple family have similar earnings.
The Future of Children: A Publication of The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University   Electronic   Sociology

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Rewarding the Work of Individuals: A Counterintuitive Approach to Reducing Poverty and Strengthening Families   (2007)   Gordon Berlin     
A strategy that used the federal earned income tax credit (EITC) to supplement the earnings of all low-wage workers aged twenty-one to fifty-four who work full time, whether they have children or not and whether they marry or not, would counter three decades of wage stagnation and persistent poverty, with significant positive corollary effects on employment and parental child support.
The Future of Children: A Publication of The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University   Electronic   Sociology

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Rewarding the Work of Individuals: A Counterintuitive Approach to Reducing Poverty and Strengthening Families   (2007)   Gordon Berlin     
Even though marriage rates in low-income communities are uncommonly low, marriage remains an ideal for the poor and near poor, as for all Americans.
The Future of Children: A Publication of The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University   Electronic   Sociology

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Rewarding the Work of Individuals: A Counterintuitive Approach to Reducing Poverty and Strengthening Families   (2007)   Gordon Berlin     
America's social welfare system was designed almost exclusively to meet the needs of poor families with children?a majority of which are now female-headed, single-parent households.
The Future of Children: A Publication of The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University   Electronic   Sociology

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Rewarding the Work of Individuals: A Counterintuitive Approach to Reducing Poverty and Strengthening Families   (2007)   Gordon Berlin     
The tax system penalizes some couples when they do marry, especially couples who earn like amounts and have combined annual earnings between $20,000 and $30,000.
The Future of Children: A Publication of The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University   Electronic   Sociology

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Rewarding the Work of Individuals: A Counterintuitive Approach to Reducing Poverty and Strengthening Families   (2007)   Gordon Berlin     
The earned income tax credit (EITC) was substantially expanded in 1986, 1990, and 1993, and today is available to all low-income workers who file tax returns.
The Future of Children: A Publication of The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University   Electronic   Sociology

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Rewarding the Work of Individuals: A Counterintuitive Approach to Reducing Poverty and Strengthening Families   (2007)   Gordon Berlin     
Someone who works full time (2,000 hours a year) at the 2006-07 minimum wage of $5.15 and who receives the maximum earned income tax credit (EITC ) credit would still have income below the 2005 poverty line of $15,577 for a family of three ($10,300 in wages plus $4,400 from the EITC, or $14,700).
The Future of Children: A Publication of The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University   Electronic   Sociology

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Rewarding the Work of Individuals: A Counterintuitive Approach to Reducing Poverty and Strengthening Families   (2007)   Gordon Berlin     
Both President Bush and congressional leaders have vowed to increase the minimum wage to $7.25, although if its value is not indexed to inflation, it will once again gradually erode over time.
The Future of Children: A Publication of The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University   Electronic   Sociology

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Dual Spousal Work Involvement: An Alternative Method to Classify Households/Families   (2006)   Charles Schaninger  Sanjay Putrevu   
Social class and (some) related wives' work involvement (WWI) variables have long been valued by marketers as primary or supplemental bases for segmentation because they capture differences in values, norms, roles, lifestyles, and broad consumption patterns.
Academy of Marketing Science Review   Electronic   Sociology

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