Newsflash: Marriage Reduces Poverty (A Brookings Study)

Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 11:24 pm by Robert C. Crosby

Newsflash: Marriage Reduces Poverty (A Brookings Study) 2015-03-13T23:24:30-04:00 Robert C. Crosby

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MARRIAGE REDUCES POVERTY? A recent study by the Brookings Institute shows that for those who graduate from high school, who get a full-time job and wait until 21 before they get married and then have their first child, the probability of becoming poor is 2%. If those factors are absent, the probability of becoming poor is 76%!

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