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Trump Has Turned the Government Against the Middle Class
Under the Trump administration, the economic rules have been rewritten to enrich wealthy donors and politicians and to hurt working- and middle-class families.
GOP Tax Law Doing Little For The Economy, Even Less For Workers: Congressional Study
Republican boasts about their new law have belly flopped, nonpartisan researchers conclude.
The Financial Crisis Is Still Hurting Middle Class Families
The past decade of economic recovery looks pretty great at first glance. Unemployment is at its lowest rate in 50 years, and economic growth and the stock market have both been rising in the decade since the crash.
Federal Reserve Chair Calls Income Inequality the Biggest Challenge in Next 10 Years
“We want prosperity to be widely shared,” Powell said Wednesday evening. “We need policies to make that happen.”
The Shrinking Middle Class: By the Numbers
The American middle-class ideal was forged in the decades after World War II, when economic growth and wage increases climbed in lockstep for nearly 30 years. That pairing dissolved abruptly in the 1970s. Between 1973 and 2017, according to the Economic Policy Institute, the productivity of the economy grew 77%—but average compensation rose only 12.4%, adjusted for inflation.
What is the Working Class
Forty, fifty or even sixty years ago, mention the phrase “working class” and most folks understood that to mean “blue collar” laborers such as a machinist, waitress, plumber, cop, production line worker, or housekeeper.
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Congressional Actions
This interactive timeline includes all actions taken by the 116th Congress on Social Security, Medicare, ACA, and Medicaid.
A Message From Our President
The Fight to Save Retirement Security for the Working Class
The movement in Washington to gut our most crucial social insurance programs – not only Social Security and Medicare, but Medicaid, too – amounts to nothing less than a war on the working class: people at all levels of income and employment who are counting on retirement income and health security.
GOP Targeting Earned Benefits
GOP talks of of targeting our earned benefits and health care in 2019.
Tracking Trump and His Administration
From the pages of his own book to the public statements made by President Trump and members of his campaign or administration, theirs is ample evidence that this administration poses a great threat to the future of the earned benefits and other tax payer funded programs that keep workers, seniors, the disabled and their families financially stable.
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