Congressional Research Service Reports - 9 Matching Results
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- The Marriage Tax Penalty: An Overview of the Issues
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- Welfare Reform: TANF Provisions Related to Marriage and Two-Parent Families
- The shrinkage in U.S. family cash welfare rolls has slowed to a near halt, although national numbers still are 50% below those of August, 1996, when Congress created the time-limited and work-conditioned block grant program of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). Under TANF, the nature of the caseload has changed. The share of recipients who combine welfare and work has risen sharply (from 11% to 26%).
- The Federal Income Tax and the Treatment of Married Couples: Background and Analysis
- Defining the married couple as a single tax unit under the federal individual income tax means that some married couples pay more income tax than they would as two unmarried singles (a marriage tax penalty) while other married couples pay less income tax than they would as two unmarried singles (a marriage tax bonus).
- The Federal Income Tax and the Treatment of Married Couples: Background and Analysis
- This report provides background and analysis of the Federal Income Tax and the treatment of married couples.
- Welfare Reform: TANF Activities to Reduce Nonmarital Pregnancy
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- Trends in Welfare, Work and the Economic Well-Being of Female-Headed Families with Children: 1987-2000
- "This report examines trends in welfare, work and economic well-being of female headed families with children, the principal group affected by the replacement of AFDC with TANF. The report presents analysis of 14 years of U.S. Census Bureau Current Population Survey (CPS) data, the principal source of information for U.S. family income and poverty statistics (Summary)."
- Marriage Penalty Legislation: A Comparison of Alternate Proposals
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- TANF Sanctions - Brief Summary
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- Welfare Law and Domestic Violence
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