In today's society, many people don't have a choice but to have two incomes.
Marriage means two incomes at a time when most Americans find two incomes essential to earning a middle-class livelihood.
The safest solution would be to have two incomes and live on one but few households live that way.
This is partly down to the increasing role of women in the workforce, as declining wages and benefits force families to rely on two incomes.
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Many of these families survive because they have two incomes.
Two incomes in a family today can barely do the job that one did in previous generations: One pays for the family, the other for all the taxes, levies, tolls and fees that go to the government.
That is especially worrying when the finances of many households have come to depend on two full incomes.
Two mill workers made for two solid incomes for their one house.
The fall in share prices has already reduced the level of household wealth in America from a peak of 4.2 times personal incomes two years ago to 3.4 times now.
His real filings over two decades have reported incomes far higher and were at least an inch thick and very complicated.
True too, Russian consumers can no longer afford so much imported food (devaluation has cut most incomes by two-thirds in dollar terms).
Only 13 out of 80 regions were able to raise their regional GDP per-capita incomes by two times or more and another two to three were close to achieving similar raises.
He also promised to double personal incomes and create two million new jobs.
While the poor are getting richer in Brazil while the poor get poorer in the U.S., there is still no comparing poverty and even middle class incomes in the two countries.
By the late 1980's, drug cartels were estimated to control between 75 to 80 percent of the cocaine traffic, employ nearly 100, 000 Colombians and secure annual incomes of between two to four billion dollars.
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The conflict is usually described as pitting indigenous Bolivians in the uplands against descendants of Spain in the lowlands, or poor versus rich, but in fact Santa Cruz is ethnically mixed and average incomes in the two cities are comparable.
In its first ten years, the national population on welfare dropped by two-thirds, and the incomes of those former welfare families increased by 25%.
Housing costs relative to incomes are more than two times higher in New York or Los Angeles than in Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth, Atlanta or, for that matter, virtually all the metropolitan areas most attractive to families.
They have disposable incomes and time, the two things you really need for any serious hobby.
Besides, most American households, even those with two wage earners, now suffer from depressed median incomes.
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The two economies are very different, with wildly varying incomes, prices (most especially on housing) and standards of living.
But the fact is that when you build a life for two (or more) on low to modest incomes and one person leaves, you both feel it desperately.
It is true that we have two different taxes which tax much the same things: incomes.
So we have two major problems with this report about the distribution of incomes and wealth.
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The IFS forecasts two years "dominated by a large decline" in incomes.
And since the bulk of poor people derive their incomes from agriculture, that has left us with two Indias, one rich, one impoverished.
That is in part because houses are still badly out of historical kilter with incomes, despite the price falls of the past two years.
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The best information on the highest incomes comes from tax returns, thanks to work pioneered by two French economists, Emmanuel Saez and Thomas Piketty, together with a Briton, Anthony Atkinson, and an Argentine, Facundo Alvaredo.
With America's astonishing two-decade boom came, as the authors show, wider inequality in incomes, higher job turnover and more temporary work.
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