Do We Discriminate Against Single People?

by Zoë Pollock

Some argue the system is stacked against them:

[Unmarried people] pay more for health and car insurance than married people do. They don’t get the same kind of tax breaks. Co-op boards, mortgage brokers, and landlords often pass them over. So do the employers with the power to promote them. … “Married people had a supermajority of political power at the time the [current tax] rules were enacted,” [law professor Lily Kahng] notes. But today? “Single people continue to be marginalized even though they comprise close to half the adult U.S. population,” she says.

Earlier Dish on the rise of the unmarried here.