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For Trump, Making America Competitive Means Hurting Americans, Slashing Wages
What if America competed with other nations to have the best universal healthcare system or the best public education system? If we competed to be the leader in creating a green economy to address climate change? If we competed to end poverty and inequality?
Donald Trump wants American to compete in the global economy, but for him that means making American lives worse rather than better.
Does he have our nation competing for the wrong prize?
The 2020 election will in part be a referendum on what America will compete for.
I know facts have a hard time surviving and garnering any credibility in Trump’s truth-free political swamp, but let’s give asserting a few facts at the outset here the old college try.
FACT: Homelessness in the U.S. has increased for the third year in a row under Trump’s rule.
FACT: Despite low unemployment rates, poverty is increasing. West Virginia is a telling case study of how the jobs being created, particularly in retail and service industries, do not pay a living wage.
As Sean O’Leary, senior budget analyst for the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy, told CBS News, “It’s cashiers, retail sales people, service employees — those…
