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Question: Thomas B. Edsall who writes for the New York Times, for example, discusses several alternatives to improve the incomes of low wage workers. These include: raising and expanding the Earned Income Tax credits; providing government/public universal child care; expanding Medicaid [that is, expanding health care coverage for low-income Americans]; reducing race-based barriers to progress for African-Americans--such as raising wages for healthcare workers who are low paid, and are disproportionately jobs held by African-American workers; reducing gender-based wage differentials that discriminate against low-wage female workers, and so forth. He also explains that government policies could be changed to better support workers' unions