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The U.S. is becoming an industrial heartland again.

American workers have faced serious difficulties in the labor market since the first oil shock in 1973. Since that time, the pace of productivity advance has slowed for reasons which are still not understood, lowering the rate at which living standards have advanced.

There is a process of social and of political differentiation going on in the real working class all the time.

A manufacturing resurgence is what will give local communities and small towns across America a fighting chance for survival. Many of today's American entrepreneurs come from those very places but make their wealth elsewhere. We need to change that.

True Americanism recognizes the enormous gravity of the social and labor problems which confront us.

The mass of workers, as yet non-Socialist, is retarded in its development towards Socialism.

For me, the labor movement and public education are linked as the essential building blocks to a strong middle class and a path to the American dream. It's why I went to Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations as an undergrad and then to law school.

What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.

The social and industrial structure of America is founded upon an enlightened citizenship.

This is just the beginning of a new era for America's workers.