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Dear Friends,

To help celebrate and promote Joe Biden’s Americas Jobs Plan, NDN is updating and rolling back out our core presentation about how the two American political parties have managed the US economy since the Berlin Wall fell and a new age of globalization began (you can learn more, register for a Friday showing here).  Called With Democrats Things Get Better our 25 minute presentation does a deep dive on years of economic data and finds that over the last generation of American politics when Democrats have been in power the economy grew, jobs were created, incomes went up, deficits went down and the stock market spiraled upwards.  During this same period, when Republicans came to power we’ve experienced recessions, job loss, declining incomes, exploding deficits and sub-par stock market growth.  

Our favorite stat from the deck - in the 16 years of Clinton and Obama 34 million new jobs were created.  In 16 years of the two Bushes and Trump only 3m jobs were created.  34m versus 3m.  This contrast between the Democrats’ repeated successful stewardship of the economy and the GOP’s repeated failures may be the single most important thing any American needs to know about the two parties over the past several decades. With Democrats things have gotten better, repeatedly; with Republicans, not so much. 

Mike Tomasky of the Daily Beast and Democracy Journal (and soon with The New Republic) recently wrote this about our presentation: 

“Simon Rosenberg heads NDN, a liberal think tank and advocacy organization. He has spent years advising Democrats, presidents included, on how to talk about economic matters. Not long ago, he put together a little PowerPoint deck. It is fascinating. You need to know about it. The entire country needs to know about it. 

The presentation compares how the economy has performed by various measures under Democratic and Republican administrations, going back to 1989. That means that it fairly compares 16 years of Democratic presidencies (Clinton and Obama) to 16 (almost) years of Republican presidencies (Bush, Bush, and Trump). It uses official government numbers, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and so forth. There’s no cooking of any numbers. It’s just the facts.

And the facts are that it’s not even close. The economy does better—far better—when we have Democratic presidents. In terms of job creation, median income, health care, and yep, even the stock market, the economy does better—the American people do better—under Democratic presidents. By a mile.

“We’ve been making a version of this ‘Dems good, Reps not-so-much’ argument for a few years now, but decided to really lean into this year because the magnitude of Trump’s failures have just made the contrast that much more stark, and even more essential for Democrats to establish,” Rosenberg told me. Amen to that.”

Amen to that!!!!!!!! We agree.  So try to catch one of our showings of With Dems this month.  To celebrate the launch of the American Jobs Plan we will be showing it every Friday in April at 2pm ET.  It is new each week, and if you miss it you can watch a previous version or just sign up for the next.  And invite friends – the more the merrier!

Thank you and hope to catch you one of these Fridays…..

Onward – Simon, Georgia and the rest of the NDN Team


 

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