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Which of the following proposals from the bipartisan list released by Opportunity America ("Work, skills, community: Restoring opportunity for the working class") with cooperation from Brookings and AEI might not benefit "the working class"?
- Make work pay by expanding the earned income tax credit to cover childless workers and experimenting with a new wage subsidy.
- Require state and local agencies that administer government benefits to make a priority of getting recipients back to work.
- Strengthen work requirements for some beneficiaries of means-tested government programs so long as jobs, training, treatment slots and other relevant services are available.
- Reform unemployment and disability insurance to promote work.
- Reform federal education spending to fund programs that teach students, college-age and older, the skills they need for the jobs of the future.
- Mobilize communities to make the most of the job-creating investment we expect to be unleashed by the Opportunity Zone provision of the 2017 tax bill.
- Make the child and dependent care tax credit more available to working-class families.
- Create a new federal program to monitor and limit opioid prescriptions.
