Spouses who earned similar amounts of money – especially those considered high earners – often found themselves subject to a marriage tax penalty. "The marriage tax penalty means that when you ...

Hence, young adults can now avoid marriage without paying a sexual penalty. This, I hold, matters particularly for men, who are — on average — slower to associate sex with emotional ...

So what can and should be done? When it comes to public policy, one way government can help is by eliminating the marriage penalty. That’s the part of the tax code where two people are taxed ...

The report found that lower-middle-class couples “whose oldest child is two or younger whose income falls closer to the upper threshold of the marriage penalty are about two to four percentage ...

An inconvenient truth of marriage is that it often brings a tax hike compared with what the couple would pay as two single people. And the problem is only getting worse, says Laura Saunders.

Proposed legislation in the U.S. Senate aims to increase Social Security benefits for adults with intellectual or developmental disabilities by eliminating the "marriage penalty." The "Eliminating ...

The breakdown of marriage is one of the greatest drivers of child poverty. Policymakers should eliminate the penalties for marriage in the welfare system. The rate at which marriage reduces the ...

Getting married has many financial positives (and a few negatives) but changes in the federal tax code, including the penalty, have removed much of the downside.

Jennifer Updike and Lewis Fredette, of Auburn, New York, got engaged in December 2023. The couple, who are both on the autism spectrum, look forward to moving in together soon and tying the knot ...

Over the last year, matrimonial lawyers have reported an uptick in clients seeking information about divorce. Additionally, divorce-related keyword internet searches are up by 11%, with nearly ...