So in his State of the Union Address earlier this year, President Obama talked about his central goal, a rising, thriving middle class with ladders of opportunity available to everyone.
Harris references Obama's vision for the middle class in his address.
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If we are able to raise wages across the board, particularly for low-wage and middle-skill workers, we are simply going to have more people spending more money.
What Congress can do is to not just acknowledge that is true but to respond by ensuring that workers can transition into good-quality jobs as seamlessly and at low cost as possible to them.
The first is the myth that the FLSA is perfectly inflexible is just that. It is a myth.
If the biggest problem that workers have is that they will have too much money to spend, I think that is a problem that we can live with