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Lamar Alexander: If we want to honor work instead of getting a welfare check, then wouldn't a more efficient way to help people in…

On the recordJune 24, 2013
If we want to honor work instead of getting a welfare check, then wouldn't a more efficient way to help people in poverty be to increase the earned income tax credit?
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Lamar Alexander
Republican · Tennessee

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Senator Alexander suggests increasing the earned income tax credit as a better alternative to minimum wage.

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