The next President will need to promote policies that will maintain and expand a sound middle class. A panel of Brookings experts, including Ron Haskins, Bruce Katz and William Gale, examined some of the major issues America’s middle class faces. A second panel of bipartisan representatives from major campaigns, including Jim Bognet, Romney for President, Inc.; Austan Goolsbee, Obama for America; and Leo Hindery, John Edwards for President discussed those policy issues that cut the widest swath across the majority of voters. ABC's Rick Klein moderated the discussion.
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