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Making the Work-Based Safety Net Work Better: Forward-Looking Policies to Help Low-Income Families

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Alternative labor-market policies to increase economic self-sufficiency: Mandating higher wages, subsidizing employment, and increasing productivity

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The principal means by which individuals and families achieve economic self-sufficiency is through labor-market earnings. As a consequence, it is natural for policymakers to look to interventions that increase the ability of individuals and families to achieve an adequate standard of living from par…