“The Blue-Collar Presidency”
“Wages rose, inequality fell, and the unemployment rate plunged to a 50-year low.”
In a recent Biden speech, he asked the audience to name one thing Trump did for the American people. This led me to revisit what life was like under the Trump administration.
A publication titled “The Blue-Collar Presidency ” outlines an incredible list of accomplishments that highlight how “Wages rose, inequality fell, and the unemployment rate plunged to a 50-year low.”
The priority blue-collar, middle-class agenda paid off, despite the pandemic and many natural disasters that occurred during Trump’s first term, including:
- Wage growth for workers has outpaced wage growth for managers.
- Wage growth for those without a bachelor’s degree has outpaced wage growth for those with a bachelor’s degree or higher.
- Wage growth for lower-income people—those at the 10th percentile of the income distribution—has outpaced wage growth for wealthier Americans.
- Average real household income hit a record high in 2019, while poverty rates hit a record low, including for African Americans and Hispanic Americans.
These achievements were not accidental.
The report notes, “President Trump’s economic agenda is tailor-made to rebuild our great American middle class, transferring power from affluent white-collar professionals and activists to workers, small businesses, manufacturers, and others once left behind by globalization’s failures.”
“It’s about more than cutting taxes and growing our economy—although both are important. It’s about eliminating unnecessary degree requirements that help the privileged but hurt skilled workers. It’s about ending overregulation that creates jobs for lawyers and consultants but kills jobs for manufacturers and energy producers. It’s about fixing trade deals that boosted multinational corporations but shipped our jobs to China and Mexico.”
“President Trump is fighting for the forgotten Americans once sidelined by our country’s own politicians, both Democrat and Republican.”
At the time, the Trump administration was leading a “Great American Comeback that has seen over 1.4 million manufacturing and construction jobs return in just the past 5 months alone. All told, the U.S. economy has added over 11 million jobs since May.”
“Today, our political class spends too much time trying to impress one another and too little time working for you.”
I remember what life was like for my family, including my adult children. I recall the hope and optimism we felt to build a great future, and I remember my neighbors and community at large doing better than ever. We can have that again!
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