Word: childlessly
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...parents with children younger than 18 are likely to have one or more sleep problems--including difficulty falling asleep, snoring, waking up unrefreshed and sleep apnea--a few nights a week or more. As a result, those folks get half an hour less of sleep a night than their childless counterparts...
First, former Miami Herald reporter Elinor Burkett, childless herself, became angry over what struck her as a torrent of "family-friendly" political rhetoric and vented her feelings by writing The Baby Boon, last year's scathing indictment of policies that "cheat the childless." Now comes a rebuttal. Following the birth of her only child, former New York Times economic reporter Ann Crittenden became angry that motherhood had damaged her financial well-being and caused her to "shed status like the skin off a snake." Under the title The Price of Motherhood, published last month, she vented her feelings...
...biggest beneficiaries of Bush's plan, saving between 15 and 22 percent of their current tax bill when the plan is fully phased in, including reductions in the so-called "marriage penalty" and an expansion of the per-child tax credit from $500 to $1,000. Childless singles, meanwhile, would save between 9 and 15 percent...
...Under Bush's plan, everybody gets a tax break except those who don't currently pay income taxes. Lower-income singles don't get much help (but don't pay much now) and single and childless folk in general get less, but they all get something. The 39.6 percent and 36 percent taxable-income brackets would become a single 33 percent bracket. The 31 and 28 percent brackets become a single 25 percent bracket. And some of that 15 percent bracket gets reset to 10 percent...
...what's not to like? Well, some folks - the single and childless, especially - may feel that their small refund isn't worth what they see as a risk to fiscal discipline, Social Security and education. Bush will have to convince them that the nation can afford a cut this size...