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Although poverty reduction was not part of President
Clinton’s rhetoric, with the assistance of First Lady
Hillary Clinton he did attempt to pass a universal
health insurance program in 1993 that would have been
extremely beneficial to the poor.
Clinton also promoted
and signed a 1993 law that significantly increased the
Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), a 1975 federal tax
relief program designed to assist hard-pressed working
families.
Myers-Lipton, p. 269
(Excerpted from “Social Solutions to Poverty”
© Paradigm Publishers
2006) |
