"States at Work: Progressive State Policies to Rebuild the Middle Class"

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States at Work: Progressive State Policies to Rebuild the Middle Class

By Karla Walter, Tom Hucker, and David Madland, with Nick Bunker and David Sanchez at the Centre for American Progress Action Fund

http://www.americanprogressaction.org/issues/labor/report/2013/03/21/57375/states-at-work-progressive-state-policies-to-rebuild-the-middle-class/

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◾Lift workers out of the ranks of the working poor, boost the wages of higher-wage workers, and ensure that living standards increase as the economy grows by raising and indexing the minimum wage to one-half the average wage and broadening its coverage

◾Provide greater retirement security for workers and cut the costs of saving for retirement in half compared to a traditional 401(k) by creating a collective defined-contribution retirement plan—a hybrid plan that combines the bests features of pensions and 401(k)s

◾Ensure that when companies do well, so do their workers by encouraging private-sector businesses to share ownership with their workers or adopt other types of inclusive capitalism programs

◾Invest in immigrant families by passing state-level DREAM Acts to permit qualified undocumented students to attend state colleges and universities at the in-state tuition rates and to access public financial aid

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1. national democrats are not going to do this so local is great nt