City Girls & Boss Chicks Are Becoming Homeless FOR THIS REASON!

City Girls & Boss Chicks Are Becoming Homeless FOR THIS REASON!

Like other experts who study singlehood, Marsh, says standards and policies, like those determining Social Security benefits and health insurance coverage, don’t align with U.S. single adults' unique bonds and networks. As a result, being single is costly due to the lack of equitable coverage, reduced Social Security benefits, and limited ability to preserve money by there being only one person to generate income and benefits for a given household. Furthermore, experts say U.S. policy around single status is damaging to people’s economic well-being, and that the treatment of this growing number of unmarried adults could have political ramifications. “Single status is the most important policy issue that we’re not discussing as a nation full stop, period,” says Jessica Moorman, Ph.D., professor at Wayne State University who studies Black women's single socialization. She says the various benefits designated for married people are “policy fixes” that could easily apply to single adults. “Marital policies exacerbated [an] already grim economic reality, “ she says, “I would argue that because more than half of this country is unmarried, that is one of the largest political causes of voters we could possibly have, right? All you need is half of all singles to get on the same page politically about something.”

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