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Biden to Executive Council: We Need A Middle Class
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| Vice President Joe Biden spoke to members of the AFL-CIO Executive Council who are meeting in Orlando March 1-3. |
In his second visit to the AFL-CIO Executive Council in 13 months, Vice President Joe Biden outlined plans to shore up America’s faltering middle class with jobs, tax policy and workers’ rights protections.
Biden also said the Obama administration intends to work to make the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) more worker friendly, even though two nominees are being held up by Senate Republicans. Biden said:
We haven’t gotten done yet what we’re going to do with the NLRB, but we’re going to get it done.
Introducing Biden, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka noted the report released last week by the White House Task Force on Middle Class Families, which Biden chairs. The report listed several recommendations resulting from a year-long review of ways to assist middle-class workers and families.
At the release of the report, Biden said:
We know, though, that the most important thing we can do … to maintain people’s ability to get to and stay in the middle class is a good-paying job.
The recommendations include doubling the child and dependent care tax credit for middle-class families and increased funding for the child care and development fund.
The administration also supports enhancing overtime rules to ensure workers are accurately classified as regular employees instead of independent contractors, Biden said. He and the president believe that there cannot be a strong economy without a strong middle class. He said:
Right now, the middle class in this country is nowhere near as strong as it needs to be.
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Hello, Yes we need a Middle Class. Not just the Wealthy and the Poor. –We need Jobs, we need Jobs to stay in this country. One Way is: Start drilling for OIL and GAS off the Eastern Coast and Alaska. Keep our SPACE PROGRAM going and operating. Benefits from these couple of things alone are listed here but not limited too;–They are: Privide much needed jobs/ provided more taxes too the National,State, & Local governments for roads & education etc.; In turn creates more housing, more auto’s.; more money in savings etc. The SPACE PROGRAM we need creates some of the same, PLUS it helps this country to be more SECURE. We can’t afford to be 2nd in Space programs etc. Drilling for oil and gas also makes us more dependant from other countries. We should not be dependant on any country for our survival for anything. -WHAT ARE WE WAITING FOR & WHO ARE WE WAITING ON??????—-Joe Goddard
HAS JOE BEEN SLEEPING FOR THE LAST 30 YEARS WHILE ON WATCH ? WE HAVE 35,000 REGESTERED LOBBYIST IN WASHINGTON , HE MUST HAVE MEET SOME OF THEM , OBAMA HAS 12 OF THE TOP LOBBYIST IN HIS ADMINISTRATION WITH NEW TITLES NOW … DID HE MISS THEM TOO!
AMERICANS HAVE BEEN SOLD DOWN THE RIVER BY SPECIAL INTEREST AND LOBBYIST GIVING BILLIONS TO CONGRESS AND THE U S SENATE OVER 30 YEARS AND EACH AND EVERY YEAR, ALL THAT MONEY ! TO BUY VOTES OR NOTE TO VOTE ON A BILL. WHAT AMERICANS NEED TO DO IS HAVE CONGRESS MAKE A LAW BANNING LOBBYIST IN AMERICA AND A CRIMINAL 10 YEAR IN JAIL TERM FOR BRIBING CONGRESS AND THE U S SENATE ALONG WITH STATES … THIS WOULD PUT A END OF SELLING AMERICAN JOBS OVER SEAS ,,, CAN AMERICANS THINK AND SEE THE RESULTS OF WHAT HAS HAPPENED IN AMERICA !