By advancing policies to build power and raise the wages of working-class families, governors can improve economic opportunity for all state residents and illustrate a strong contrast with the Trump administration, which is abandoning its commitments to working people.
These actions would be good for workers and represent a progressive economic vision that counters the Trump administration’s anti-worker actions that have effectively halted workers’ ability to hold corporations that violate workers’ union rights accountable; shuttered the agency that protects everyday Americans from bank scams; broken contracts and revoked the bargaining rights of unionized public employees; and fired thousands of park rangers, emergency response staff, and other public workers who rely on their paychecks to get by.
The above excerpt was originally published in Center for American Progress.
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