Subject: for comms approval -- SL: Trump’s Thoughts on Growing Middle Class Paychecks
From: "Freundlich, Christina" <[email-masked]>
To: "Walker, Eric" <[email-masked]>, "Paustenbach, Mark" <[email-masked]>, "Miranda, Luis" <[email-masked]>, "Walsh, Tom" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Palermo, Rachel" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 08:38:51 -0700

h/t to Rachel for first draft

SL: Donald Trump Is Unfit To Grow the Middle Class

This week, President Obama announced that the Department of Labor will be expanding overtime pay to millions of American workers. The new rule is expected to boost wages for workers by 12 billion dollars over the next 10 years – lifting up hardworking families and leveling the playing field. Increasing overtime protections is another step in the President’s effort to grow and strengthen the middle class by raising Americans’ wages.  This extra income will not only mean a better life for American families impacted by overtime protections, but will boost our economy across the board as these families spend their hard-earned wages.

As Democrats work to increases wages and create jobs, Republicans continue to propose policies that would drag our nation backwards. Here’s what the presumptive GOP nominee, Donald Trump, has to say on the issue of raising wages:

·         Trump has repeatedly said<http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/donald-trump-wages-too-high> that American wages are already “too high”

·         Trump wants to end<http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/08/federal-minimum-wage-trump> the federal minimum wage

·         He said<http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/aug/20/donald-trump-having-low-minimum-wage-not-bad-thing/> that having a low minimum wage “is not a bad thing for this country”

·         Trump has called<http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Political-Action-Legislation/Trump-Seems-to-Be-Fine-with-Outsourcing-to-Right-to-Work-States> low wages an advantage of Right-To-Work states

The last time a Republican president left office, his failed policies crashed our economy and the country was losing 800,000 jobs a month. A Trump presidency would drag America back into a recession—offering more of the same, or worse, out-of-touch-policies; which is why we need a Democrat as the 45th president of the United States.