- Ensure middle-class families pay only 15 percent of their income to send their children to college
- Reduce the cost of saving for retirement by nearly half, compared to a typical 401(k) plan
- Lower mortgage payments for millions of families by an average of $2,600 a year
- Restore 500,000 teaching jobs
- Create more than 2 million jobs rebuilding and upgrading our infrastructure
- Guarantee workers access to paid sick days and maternity leave
- Increase access to higher education and job training Ensure that workers receive the overtime pay and benefits they deserve
- Help non-college-graduates gain credentials that boost pay by as much as $225,000 more than comparable job seekers during their lifetimes
- Save middle-class consumers thousands of dollars annually on health care and limit the risk that illness will send them to the poorhouse
- Reduce the cost to parents of quality preschool
See a summary of the article at http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2012/08/pdf/middle_class_policies_execsumm.pdf
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