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Why should be incentivize marriage, OP?
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Dp.  Heard a really good interview with her on npr.  Basically she argues we throw tons of money at school and welfare programs for struggling kids and get very poor outcomes for that money (especially for boys.). If we instead invested in getting and keeping parents married we’d be making a much better investment.

The trick is how do you do that?  And her answer seems to be we need to ensure good paying blue collar jobs for men.  Otherwise women cant/won’t marry them when they get pregnant.

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I'd agree with all of this.

You'd be remiss to think that women don't marry in order to make sure they still have social welfare programs though. I worked a low wage job through college and it was eye opening. My coworkers knew to the hour how much they had to work and not work in order to make sure their wages fell below the amount needed for different programs. Quite a few lived together, but refused to get married because they'd lose benefits. Instead they were engaged. [/quote]

This. I interviewed at least 30 women for an open position in Maryland that we needed to fill with someone working 38 hours. The position paid workers comp, vacation, SS etc.  At least 16 of the women told me they could not work more than 18 hours.
After talking to multiple [b]women who would not accept  a fulltime job I realized they lose the money that hits their "card" from the government. Multiple women told me they could not work more than 18 hours[/b]. Essentially business people compete against the government benefits for workers. Government programs disincentivizes women to work and get promoted and get ahead.

In my experience the single Moms would be better off married with a partner to help out in emergencies and to provide a second income.  I've had to put $1500 on my credit card to get a single Mom's car released from the repo man so she would have transportation to come to work.  This was for a nice lady who had zero network of support. I've never once heard her mention the daughter's father.
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EBT card disincentivizes work.[/quote]

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