In Philadelphia, our public safety, poverty reduction, health and economic development all start with education. We can't grow the middle class if we don't give our kids the tools they need to innovate and invent.
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Right now, America's middle class is struggling to meet their basic needs.
A well-educated populace is the backbone of our middle-class.
All around the United States of America - in the cities and the counties - our public education is suffering and has been suffering. Cuts, cuts, cuts.
We need to prepare our kids for a 21st Century economy, and we're not doing it with our schools.
When we set up our kids for failure, we set up our workforce for failure, and we set up our economy for failure. I can't emphasize enough the importance, the absolute importance, of education in achieving long-term economic growth.
The middle class creates us rich people, not the other way around.
A strong, educated middle class is what made America the greatest country in the world.
In America today, a young person needs more education after high school just to have a chance to make it in the middle class. Not a guarantee, just a chance to make it.
The middle class has disappeared. We have a highway to poverty and no roads coming out.
One of the strengths of our nation has always been a strong middle class who could afford their own homes and send their children to school.