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Governors Should Fight for an Economic Agenda To Improve the Lives of Working-Class Residents
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Governors Should Fight for an Economic Agenda To Improve the Lives of Working-Class Residents

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.

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.

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Karla Walter

Senior Fellow, Inclusive Economy

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