Issue Position: Jobs & the Economy

Issue Position

Our nation is strongest when our middle class is strongest. While the stock market soars, America's middle class is disappearing. The poorest 47% of Americans have no wealth - their debt exceeds their assets. If you can get a job, you're working longer, harder, and for less pay than ever before.

How do we do fix our economy and bring back our middle class? Keynesian economics brought back our economy after the Great Depression. It taught us that in times of recession, the government CAN create jobs by investing in our crumbling infrastructure. Times like this are when we need to get more money in the pockets of working folks so they can afford food and medicine, and when they spend this money, the entire economy improves.

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