By Doug Cunningham
Dr. Matt Longjohn says if elected to Congress he will work to raise wages that have stagnated for decades during Fred Upton’s terms in Congress.
If you work for wages your buying power has barely budged since 1964. The Pew Research Center says real worker wages – adjusted for inflation – have stagnated for decades. Democratic congressional candidate Dr. Matt Longjohn says working families are struggling as a direct result of economic policies that have favored the wealthy.
“Since Mr. Upton has been in office in 1986 wages have stagnated over thirty years. And people are workin’ too darned hard to make ends meet. And watching the cost of healthcare, the cost of education, their opportunities for their kids or for their own dignified retirement just slipping away because the cost of living is increasing while wages are not.”
Longjohn says we absolutely must put workers first, not just shareholders. For you and your family to get ahead, Longjohn says, your representative in Congress must work to reverse these policies.
“We have to be talking about reversing our economic theory of trickle down economics. We’re just seeing larger and larger inequities between the 1 percent and the 99 percent. “
