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The Minimum Wage and the EITC: Complementary Strategies Helping Women Lift Their Families Out of Poverty

July 15, 2013

The minimum wage and the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) are two federal policies that help low-income workers, especially women, make ends meet and support their families.  Improvements to the minimum wage and EITC are necessary as important complements to – not substitutes for – one another. 

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