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...economic benefits. As research by Zagorsky and others illustrates, it does. A child in a single-parent family, for instance, is five times as likely to live below the poverty line. What Cancian and Reed try to illustrate, though, is that replicating marriage wouldn't necessarily generate more per-person wealth. "There are reasons some people don't get married - they don't have the same options," says Cancian. Marrying someone who is chronically unemployed -or incarcerated - might very well not be an economic step up. (See a gay-wedding video...
...better policy response, the researchers hold, is to address the variable that has partly been holding poverty at bay the past few decades: women in the workforce. Policies designed to make it easier for a person to have a job while rearing a child - flexible work schedules, on-site day care - could be a way to let unmarried individuals recapture some of the advantage of marriage. The issue is hardly fringe: last year, some 40% of children were born outside of marriage. "We have to build a system where people can be both good workers and good parents," says Cancian...
...entered the building as many as 10 times the day she disappeared and bore suspicious wounds on his chest, arms and back. Clark was arrested Sept. 17 and charged with murder. As investigators soon learned, there was little in his past that foreshadowed the charges.(Read "What Is a 'Person of Interest...
Reaper, the Grim • Jim Carroll and Larry Gelbart and Henry Gibson and Jody Powell and Patrick Swayze and Mary Travers are claimed by, along with the world's oldest person...
...Baucus acknowledges the criticism he is getting from within his own party. "My assumption is, the other person's view probably has more than a grain of truth," he says. The chairman told TIME.com that he hopes to iron out some of those differences in the coming days. Specifically, Baucus is talking to Democratic members of his committee about addressing one of their chief complaints about the bill - that it won't do enough to make insurance affordable for the middle class. That's a crucial question, because the legislation would, for the first time, impose a requirement that virtually...