Sentence examples for reduce marriage from inspiring English sources

A White House spokesman, Ken Lisaius, said, "It is very clear a problem exists with the alternative minimum tax, and the president is very sympathetic about the problem, but he believes Congress should tackle first the priorities he has set" to reduce marriage penalties and marginal tax rates and repeal the estate tax.

Education and German ethnicity reduce marriage probabilities for both men and women, and men in the East German sample (and those with a religious affiliation) are more likely to marry.

To reduce marriage penalties, the income level at which the EITC begins to phase out is now set $5,000 higher for married couples than for single filers.

In recent years, Congress has worked to reduce marriage penalties in the tax system facing middle and upper income couples, but law makers have hardly begun to address marriage penalties in the public benefits system -- even though the greater economic stability that married couples tend to build over time could help some low-income couples get off welfare for good.

For a large proportion of young couples, the perceived costs of marriage appear to outweigh the benefits, and the limited sanctions against extra-marital childbearing in many families reduce marriage as a necessary entry to parenting.

Both couples have reduced marriage to good and sometimes grumpy companionship.

But what made that strategy possible was the way the core of the Bush plan, which consisted of big tax cuts for the rich, was decked out in loss-leaders that did help selected middle-class families: expanded child tax credit, reduced marriage penalty, and so on.

Keeping girls in school reduces marriage rates for the youngest, a key vehicle for helping families escape poverty.

Research that tracked young men ages 18 to 32 has shown that "changing jobs and having a large number of jobs end up lowering wage rates and reducing marriage rates".

Under cross-examination, a flustered David Blankenhorn, the founder of the Institute of American Values, exposed as having no scholarly expertise whatsoever, cast about for academic authorities to support his position that same-sex marriage reduces hetero marriage rates, and named Popenoe.

Tonight, I propose another major expansion of the E.I.T.C. -- to reduce the marriage penalty, to make sure it rewards marriage as it rewards work.