Labor markets and a healthy economy are of paramount importance to the health, happiness and well-being of all Americans.
How will this grow the American worker's paycheck?
I think the childless EITC, the Earned Income Tax Credit, is a great way of ensuring that those who work get the rewards that they deserve.
My own view is that that kind of approach is a particularly poor fit for an economy where two-thirds of the economic activity is driven by c...
For Oregon's middle class, moving the recovery from a walk to a run comes down to the five T's.
You cannot have big-league economic growth with little league infrastructure.
I am not going to accept turning those rural communities into sacrifice zones where we just write them off.
Nobody this weekend said the answer was just safety net programs.
We think that is the kind of thing that can help raise paychecks.
When working families see bigger paychecks, America's economic recovery is going to go from a walk to a run.
I share a lot of your concerns as well, and I look forward to working with you.