The state government will provide subsidies to help business buy insurance for the working poor.
But the working poor do not have the options of going to Canada, Russia or France.
The working poor pay the full 6.2% on every cent of their meager wages.
At the same time, the debate has shifted towards how best to help the working poor.
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The Harvard connection can also be seen in New Labour's emphasis on the working poor.
At the least, a lack of affordable housing implies a long commute for the working poor.
Democrat-supported programs including tax credits for the working poor, AIDS research, college funding and aid to cities.
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The working poor continue to pay far more than their fair share of the Social Security tax.
Okello looked at the world of the slums and the working poor, and thought of the African jungle.
Mr Ozawa promises to restore the pension system, help the working poor and the old, and revitalise the countryside.
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For members of the working poor, the sheer cost of survival may be very close to their total incomes.
The working poor, by contrast, are in a highly undesirable position when it comes to marital status and taxes.
These measures have been carefully crafted to make voting harder for people of color, students, seniors and the working poor.
The automobile is an onerous, expensive obligation and necessity, and in the case of the working poor a brutal tax.
He also warns about political instability and poor policy decisions that could keep the working poor from sharing in the growth.
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Indeed, they sometimes find themselves working together, for example when they pushed to make child-care tax credits available to the working poor.
If it were up to the economists though, fatter tax subsidies would be top of the list for helping the working poor.
The government wanted the working poor, most of them women, to have enough money to save for retirement and, of course, healthcare.
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Rather, it is the story of one man's struggle against homelessness (why doesn't the state do more to help the working poor?).
That would not only help the working poor, but benefit the economy.
Focusing public policy on the working poor will not eradicate America's poverty.
Ironically, for a Democratic Administration that fancies itself a greater friend of the poor, a cheap dollar slams the working poor the hardest.
David Shipler's The Working Poor is an illuminating look at some struggling Americans, but Aunt Mary might rather have the latest Harry Potter.
Oh, right, we have to raise taxes on the working poor and the middle class to finance even more tax breaks for millionaires.
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Lowry painted the working poor and, more and more, strange beggars and cripples against featureless backgrounds, yet he had no obvious political agenda.
And some policies, such as a massive increase in state-funded child-care for the working poor, will raise costs while introducing new benefits traps.
If the earned-income tax credit (a cash transfer to the working poor) were included, 2.4m children would have been lifted out of poverty.
Most of the working poor, armed with tax credits, would go to private insurers, but the truly poor could tap government-sponsored risk pools.
Because of deficit budget cuts, states are either eliminating or tightening eligibility requirements for child care programs that used to serve the working poor.
But he has made a commitment to liberalizing a highly protectionist Colombian economy to reduce poverty and create more opportunity for the working poor.
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