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

Are these alternatives for helping low wage workers better solutions in your view than campaigning for raising workers' wages through a "family wage" for the "breadwinner" of the family, or paying all full-time workers a "living wage"? Should these alternatives be pursued, rather than advocating for increasing the minimum wage--a solution that many small business employers reject? Explain your response.