a. labor unions, especially auto workers
In Congress, the president pushed through an increase in the Earned Income Tax Credit for low-wage earners, which effectively carried their income over the poverty line. Clinton also scored a victory when Congress approved the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1993. That agreement abolished tariff's (import taxes) among Mexico, the United States, and Canada, creating a common market in which goods could flow freely across borders. Although labor unions objected that U.S. jobs, especially in the auto industry, would be lost to Mexico, the New Democrats argued that NAFTA would promote prosperity by opening Canada and Mexico to U.S. -made goods.