MSNBCW PoliticsNation July 24, 2013
This country was all about. In the period after world war ii, a growing middle class was the engine of our prosperity. Whether you owned a company or swept its floors or worked anywhere in between, this country offered you a basic. The sense your hard work would be rewarded with fair wages and decent benefits, a chance to buy a home, to save for retirement. And most of all, a chance to hand out a better life for your kids. That is the heart of the American Dream. But the president made clear he knows that basic bargain is now out of reach for too Many Americans. Even though our businesses are ...