“Since the Earned Income Tax Credit lifts nearly 5 million Americans out of poverty each year, I’ll double the number of workers who receive it and triple the benefit for minimum wage workers. And I won’t wait another ten years to raise the minimum wage – I’ll guarantee that it keeps pace with inflation every single year so that it’s not just a minimum wage, but a living wage. Because that’s the change that working Americans need.”
President Barack Obama Obama’s Speech in Janesville, Wisconsin February 13, 2008
http://www.cfr.org/us-election-2008/obamas-speech-janesville-wisconsin/p15492
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