If we refocus it. as I have proposed. back on working families with children. we can help them in a better way than the negative impacts of raising the minimum wage. Convert that large lump sum to a monthly payment so it is a practical supplement for family income. Deny the credit to undocumented workers. eliminate the credit for childless adults who never were eligible until 1993 when we expanded it. and then increase that credit for working parents. who it was intended to help in the first place. That single mom with one child. those parents with one child would see their effective wage rate go to $5.47 an hour under that proposal. With two children it would go to $6.37 an hour. and 12.7 million families would be the beneficiaries of such a change.
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