Obama's "Mission Accomplished" - Slate
Story date: 2008-06-21 02:44:00
Added on: 2008-06-22 22:00:42
-- Andrew Biggs questions whether Social Security's "work test"--you only get it if you've worked--would "keep a more progressive Social Security program from being seen as welfare." He notes that the Earned Income Tax Credit also goes only to ...
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