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… priority is increasing wages and incomes for everyone, not just for some. Specifically, America’s economic policies need to focus on restoring the link between productivity and wage growth. For three decades after the second World War, a wise set … more Americans a sense that the rules of the game are rigged and we do not all have an equal chance to get ahead. They are right, of course, and the evidence is all around us. Racial and ethnic wage gaps have not been narrowed; the gender pay gap … by unions has fallen, more and more businesses have gotten away with replacing full-time positions with part-time work. In these situations, what’s really needed is full-time employment—or at least adequate hours—and restoring workers’ …

… three decades, Medicare has been the cornerstone of health security for the nation's elderly. Medicare was created in 1965 to address a crisis among older Americans: at the very moment in their lives when health care needs were rising and incomes … solvency, through a combination of new resources and costs-savings measures, and improve benefits. While the Commission's work is not complete, Co-Chairman John Breaux is advocating radical reform--"premium support"-- that would fundamentally … Clinton, which aim at maintaining and strengthening a strong and effective publicly administered program , point in the right direction. Dedicating 15 percent of the budget surplus over the next 15 years to shoring up the Medicare Trust Fund, as …

… need, especially in tough times. We have seen in Ferguson, Mo., how public schools gave children the space they needed to process what was happening in their community, while instilling hope for their future. And we are all constantly reminded … that gap by supporting, not sanctioning, children, teachers and schools. We narrow that gap by teaching children how to work with their hands, to work in teams, to solve problems – not just how to ace a test. We narrow that gap by providing … progress – not to sanction or scapegoat. In that vein, parents who want to opt out of annual testing should also have the right to do so. Provide struggling students and schools access to the 21st-century solutions they deserve – community schools …