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Infographic: Make Work Pay for Kentucky Families with a State EITC and Minimum Wage Increase

Anna Baumann | March 26, 2014

Hundreds of thousands of hardworking Kentuckians in low-wage jobs are struggling to make ends meet. Here are two tools that would give Kentucky families a boost they need: enacting a state Earned Income Tax Credit that builds on the poverty-fighting success of the federal EITC and raising the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour.

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