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The Working-Class Welfare Trap: How Policy Penalizes Marriage

by Douglas J. Besharov, Neil Gilbert
Oct 29, 2020
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issues: Competition Policy, Future of Work, Midwest, State Policy
originally published in IFS
From IFS:

One study found that a working-class couple with two children in Arkansas stood to lose 32 percent of their real income if they married.

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