President’s Weekly Address: Focusing on the Economic Priorities for the Middle Class Nationwide

In this week’s address, President Barack Obama discussed his recent trip to Minneapolis where he met a working mother named Rebekah, who wrote the President to share the challenges her family and many middle-class Americans are facing where they work hard and sacrifice yet still can’t seem to get ahead. But instead of focusing on growing the middle class and expanding opportunity for all, the President feels that Republicans in Congress continue to block commonsense economic proposals such as raising the minimum wage, extending unemployment insurance and making college more affordable.  (This journalist agrees– fact not opinion.)

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