Congressman Goes To War On Bush's Middle Class Squeeze

How the Bush Administration and GOP congressional policies are failing the middle class

The Middle Class Squeeze highlights how Bush Administration and Congressional policies are failing middle-class Americans. Stagnating or declining real wages for workers, exploding health care and college costs, and record-high gas prices -- among other challenges -- are damaging most Americans' way of life. Meanwhile, the Bush Administration and Congress have passed trillion-dollar tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthy, and have pushed a variety of policies that hurt workers and their families. Taken together, these developments are squeezing the middle class, and threatening most Americans' valued way of life. Congressman Miller, as the Senior Democrat on the House Education and Workforce Committee, will document the squeeze on the middle class each week.

May 27, 2004, Issue #2 -- Prices at the Pump: The Bush Gas “Tax"

May 20, 2004, Issue #1 -- Paychecks: Workers Feeling the Squeeze