A free economy and strong communities honor the dignity of every person, rewarding effort with justice, promoting upward mobility, and building solidarity among citizens.

We believe that the government has an important role to create the conditions that promote entrepreneurship, upward mobility, and individual responsibility.

Not every seed planted in rich soil grows, nor every seed planted in poor soil fails. That is why we need public education.

If we are serious about providing upward mobility and building a skilled workforce, pre-school is the place to begin.

Offshoring manufacturing jobs left Americans with fewer high-value-added, well-paid jobs, and the U.S. middle class downsized. Ladders of upward mobility were taken down. Income and wealth distributions worsened.

My story is the story of many postwar British families. Upward mobility. A council house and then new affluence.