Reducing family size certainly creates what look, on the face of things, like more competitive descendants.
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The amount that you are able to subtract from your adjusted gross income increases with family size.
David Benatar, a professor at the University of Cape Town, also turns to philosophy to determine the ideal family size.
You might expect poor people to lead this process of transition because they have more scope to cut family size.
Eligibility is based on information including income and family size provided on your income tax returns for the prior two years.
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For some programs being uninsured is the only requirement and for others you have to report family size as well as income.
This is a meaningless way to consider American income, and Krugman knows it: Family size has decreased, meaning there are a lot more families.
Scene Five: Now we have the richly childed Al Gore telling us that the way to reduce global warming pollution is to reduce family size.
Without specifying a policy, he seemed to be edging towards a view of appropriate family size for welfare claimants, of a maximum of two or three children.
How it stacks up depends as much on your family size, your motoring desires and what you actually need in a car versus what you might want.
And there are geographic adjustments to account for the fact that it costs more to live in Manhattan than in Syracuse (for example) and more accurate adjustments for family size.
The link between family size and social standing is a subject close to my heart and goes back to my own childhood in Karakore, a small town in Ethiopia, where I grew up the eldest of seven children.
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This is where she believes analyzing the socio-demographics of people at the bottom of the pyramid make a difference, revealing factors such as education, family size, and occupation as indicators of whether one makes a good borrower or not.
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The number of tax brackets is reduced from six to four (15%, 25%, 30%, 33%), the adjustments for family size are simplified, the myriad incentives for saving are expanded and consolidated into the same three saving accounts as the first option.
Two, I had a knack for remembering what kind of packing material was best for which fragile object, and I immediately understood why it was better that personal-size bags of chips be torn vertically, while family-size bags be torn horizontally, and where the tabs should be located to al-low each sort of tearing.
This is a huge amount for a family our size on our incomes.
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Jesse told me that he grew up on a mid-size family farm in Caro, Michigan, which gave him the opportunity to learn about the demands of the market.
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The Outlook is a version of GM's full-size crossover family that includes the GMC Acadia, Buick Enclave, and Chevrolet Traverse, while the Sky is a rebodied Pontiac Solstice.
You can have a family fortune of any size.
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Zappos employees are actively encouraged to spend hours on the phone with customers, discussing anything from shoe size to family troubles (the record time for one call is just under six hours).
People can input criteria such as their budget, how often the grocery shopping, desirable nutrition intake, size of the family, location, etc.
It was more appropriate that Walt should have the apartment, given the size of his family, and me living alone, although Walt didn't actually need the apartment.
Sally Quinn, a writer for the Washington Post, has even argued that, given the size of her family, she cannot possibly be both a national candidate and a good mother.
Clean cooking solutions have been created but with the idea that one size fits all, without considering the different fuel sources, food choices, cooking styles, or the size of the family.
The Clinton administration's signature policy was the Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles, a government-industry partnership to develop an 80 mpg family car without sacrificing its size, comfort, range or speed--and spending a relatively paltry few billion dollars along the way.
We know that when a woman can plan the size of her family, she is healthier, more likely to finish her education, join the labor force, become more economically productive and engage in politics, thus more effectively shaping the future of her family and her country.
This has the biggest implications for the baby bust generation (born 1966-1985) as they approach what should be their prime earning years and for younger baby boomers that will be facing a vacuum of demand from younger generations when they want to retire, sell the family home and down-size.
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For all the ingenuity of the image, are you surprised by the size of your stuff family?
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At just 246 rooms, this family friendly resort is a fraction of the size of the 4, 000-room Atlantis next door.
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