Subject: HRC and economy
From: Brent Budowsky <[email-masked]>
To: John Podesta <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2015 18:51:28 -0400

John,

I would suggest HRC dramatize a call for a new jobs plan, esp. infrastructure, and
key point give major focus to the theme Do Not Leave Anyone Behind.  Major media
misses the point of why so many Americans say they are unhappy with the economy
and right track, wrong track.  Economy is not nearly as strong for a large number of
Americans as the topline economic data would suggest.  Key data in today's jobless
numbers are the historically low labor participation rate and flat wages (when the
daily cost of living is higher than top line inflation data suggest).

Re labor participation some of it is retiring boomers, but a lot of it involves workers
who are psychologically depressed or can't find acceptable work and are no longer counted in jobless data, and also jobless claims data because long ago the time
period for their jobless benefits ran out (I did everything I could to get Democrats
to make this an issue prior to 2014 midterms but nobody cared).

Remember in Argentina and other Latin nations in the 1980's we had the "disappeared" who dictatorships imprisoned and they just disappeared.

Today in America we have economically disappeared, they don't score in jobs numbers or jobless claims numbers, they are a lost generation within the larger
generation, Obama never talks about them because he wants to claim credit for
the economy.

My suggestion: Hillary directly address them personally, politically and with economic
ideas aimed to help them.  For this large swath of Americans we are still in recession
and HRC should be their champion......

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