A record share of American adults are single and penalized by joint filing

Evidence

In 2017, 45 percent of Americans over the age of eighteen were single and 53 percent were women. We have more single people today than we have ever had in history. The singles’ penalty will only be eliminated if the joint return is repealed. — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth, 163

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The joint tax return system penalizes dual-earner couples with equal incomes — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax…, 36; Individual filing would eliminate the marriage bonus and singles penalty — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax…, 160; Nearly half of American adults are single in 2017 (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The joint tax return system penalizes dual-earner couples with equal incomes — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax…, 36; Individual filing would eliminate the marriage bonus and singles penalty — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax…, 160; Nearly half of American adults are single in 2017 (+1 more)