An opinion columnist in the Washington Post argues that the Stop Bad Employers by Zeroing Out Subsidies Act is “virtually guaranteed to hurt the very low income working families its sponsors want to help.”
a. What were the main provisions of this act?
b. Why would the columnist argue that the act was more likely to hurt than help low-income families?
c. If the columnist is correct, why did the sponsors of the act in Congress write the act the way that they did?