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The Working-Class Welfare Trap: How Policy Penalizes Marriage
by
Douglas J. Besharov, Neil Gilbert
Oct 29, 2020
originally published in
National Review
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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