Here's a recent Brookings Institution article that sheds some light on Biden's economic views. BI has launched a "Future of the Middle Class Initiative," and this came out of that, thus the middle class theme.
Vice President Joe Biden’s 5 ideas for helping America’s middle class
Vice President Biden said that a strong, aspiring, and growing middle class accounts for much of the stability in America over the last century. “When the middle class does well,” he said, “everyone does well.” ...
“The middle class is not a number,” Biden said, “it’s a value set.”
It’s about being able to own your home and not have to rent it. It’s about being able to send your kid to a park and you know they are going to come home safely. It’s about being able to send your kid to a school, a public school, and if they do well enough they can go on after high school, and if they qualify to go on after high school you can figure out how to pay for it. And in the meantime you can take care of your geriatric mom after your dad passed away and you hope your kids will never have to take care of you.
A STRONG MIDDLE CLASS BREEDS OPPORTUNITY ...
A YAWNING INCOME GAP IS PULLING AMERICANS APART ...
THE US NEEDS A BETTER-EDUCATED WORKFORCE ...
WE’VE GOT TO REBUILD AMERICA’S INFRASTRUCTURE ...
INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP AT HEART OF US ECONOMY ...
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/brookings-now/2018/05/09/vice-president-joe-biden-5-ideas-for-helping-middle-class/
There's plenty of good information out there. Biden is famous for his support of unions and the principles of collective bargaining, for instance. Anyone who wants to argue that a
growing, prosperous middle class, much less healthy unions, is "status quo" these days is totally disconnected from reality. Before our electorate as a whole swung conservative beginning around 1978, our middle classes were growing every decade and poverty shrinking. Both Biden and Warren want to put an end to the predatory conservatism that followed and return to a nation, including its economy, of, by and for its people. They differ how best to accomplish that, of course.
Congratulations to our presumptive Democratic nominee, Joe Biden!
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