1. Tax Credit Expansions Don't Make Up for the Lower Minimum Wage Increase Proposed by President Obama
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The $9 minimum wage proposed in the SOTU is less than the $9.50 that Obama proposed during his first campaign. For a full-time worker, that's about $1,000 less per year. And, as Tim Noah has noted, if ...