Washington, DC – Today, Correct The Record released the following response to Jeb Bush’s comments yesterday that “people should work longer hours” if they want the American economy to grow.
“According to Jeb Bush, America’s middle class is shrinking not because of the failure of trickle-down economics or the outsourcing of American jobs overseas, but because American workers just don’t work long enough,” said Adrienne Watson, communications director of Correct The Record. “These comments just go to show he is either naïve to the struggles of regular folks or he is pandering to Donald Trump and those on the right who refuse to acknowledge the growing inequality in our country and work to benefit only the richest of Americans.
“The American economy—and American workers—have been fighting their way back from the damage to our economy inflicted by the economic policies of the Bush years and the recession that followed. We need to expand opportunity for Americans, not drag them backwards with more Bush-era economics. Hillary Clinton’s economic agenda focuses on expanding the middle class in a way that grows the entire economy.”
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