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Friend,

With everything in the news right now, it seemed fitting to spend a few moments talking about what I consider my sun and my moon when it comes to this Senate campaign: preserving and expanding the middle class.

While I’m a national security person by training, I feel very firmly that, as a great multi-racial, multi-ethnic experiment in democracy, the United States must always be a place where people – anyone – can get into and stay in the middle class. And while there are lots of definitions of middle class, I again think of it in terms of security: middle class means having enough money to save every single month, and being on a path to home ownership.

Right now in Michigan, we have people who have little hope of getting into the middle class, because of lack of opportunity or education. Then there are others who may have had parents or grandparents in the middle class, but because of the changing nature of work, have slipped out of it themselves. As a diverse state and nation, it’s not healthy to become a place of very rich and very poor.

We need that anchor — that very American anchor – of the middle class.

Given that, I spend a lot of time on the campaign focused on the kitchen table issues that make the middle class work. How do we create more jobs? And how can we ensure those jobs pay a living wage? How can we support our small business owners and entrepreneurs who want to contribute something new, and break down barriers and red tape that hold them back? And how do we actually go after the exorbitant family costs of health care, prescription drugs, childcare, housing, and postsecondary education that keep too many from being able to succeed and save? Because in order for the middle class to work, the basic math has to work for daily life.

I also believe that when people live a stable, middle class life, they can achieve the promise of America: provide to their kids more than they had, and be more generous with people around them.

This is the conversation I want to help lead in the U.S. Senate: How do we make policies that support a solid, middle class life? If you think this is a conversation worth having at the highest levels, I would love to have your support before the end of the month. Every donation helps and every dollar will be used toward the goal of bringing substantive change in the halls of the Senate.

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Thank you,

Team Slotkin
 


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