Dear John,

By now you’ve probably heard about the big New York Times / Siena College poll showing Donald Trump leading President Biden in five out of the six key battleground states.

But when I dug into the polling results, one result in particular jumped out at me as especially problematic: voters think Trump will do a better job than President Biden on the economy by a whopping 59 to 37 percent.

This, to put it simply, is nonsense.

President Trump presided over a historic net loss of nearly 3 million American jobs, the worst jobs numbers ever recorded under an American president. Middle-class American households saw their incomes go down under Trump — and that was before the pandemic.

Here’s the good news: Inequality Media Civic Action was built to educate the public about these exact issues without having to work through the corporate media’s filter. We’re about to launch a major public education campaign across every social media platform busting the most commonly held myths about the Trump economy and showing how much things have improved under President Biden.

Will you make a donation to help set the record straight and bust the myths about Donald Trump’s record on jobs, wages, and the deficit?

Republicans claim it’s not Trump’s fault that the economy collapsed under his watch, instead blaming the pandemic.

Hogwash.

First, Trump’s mishandling of the pandemic made it much worse than it should have been. Second, Trump’s economy was failing even before the pandemic.

America added more jobs in President Obama’s last three years than in Trump’s first three. Trump promised that his massive tax giveaway to the rich would result in $4,000 annual raises for workers, but wages actually went down.

But it’s not just Trump. America’s economy almost always does worse under Republican presidents than Democrats. In fact, since 1933, the U.S. economy has grown nearly twice as fast on average under Democrats.

Republicans keep claiming that if we just cut enough taxes on the rich, the wealth will “trickle down.” But it never works. Wage growth slowed after Reagan’s tax cuts for the rich and big corporations. And the Bush and Trump tax cuts didn’t trickle down, either.

These giveaways to the wealthy come at the expense of investments in infrastructure, education, and health care. They also explode the debt and deficit. Reagan oversaw a 186% increase in the national debt — the biggest percentage increase in over 70 years. The Bush and Trump tax cuts made it even worse.

Republicans talk about running the country like a business, but they want to run it the way Trump ran his businesses: with massive debts, a string of failures, and payouts for the folks at the top, while workers get shafted again and again.

These are the facts that the American people need to know, and they just aren’t hearing them, let alone from the corporate media.

From our founding, Inequality Media Civic Action has focused like a laser on figuring out the most effective ways to educate the public and combat myths on the economy. That work has never been more critical than it is right now.

Please make a donation to help educate the public and set the record straight on Trump vs. Biden on the economy.

Thank you for joining the fight for truth,

Robert Reich
Inequality Media Civic Action