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BARACK OBAMA:
BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION TRADES

BARACK OBAMA'S VISION FOR AMERICA HAS BEEN SHAPED BY HIS EXPERIENCES.

Midwest Values and Upbringing. Obama was raised by his mother and grandparents, who instilled in him their Midwest Kansas values of honesty, fairness and hard work. (Campaign Website)

Community Organizer. Obama turned down jobs on Wall Street to work in a Chicago community devastated by the closing of area steel mills. (U.S. News & World Report, 8/26/07)

Cutting Taxes for Working Families. Obama proposed a tax plan that would reward working families, not just the wealthy. Under his plan, working families would get an average tax cut of $1,000 to help offset the higher price of gas and food. (Tampa Bay Business Journal, 5/28/08; ThinkProgress.org, 6/12/08; Tax Policy Center report, 6/11/08)

Keeping Jobs in America. Obama would reward U.S. companies that keep good jobs in the United States, not those that ship our jobs overseas. (Detroit Free Press, 6/3/08; Campaign Website; Patriot Employer Act of 2007, S. 1945)

Protecting Wages and Creating Opportunities. Obama supports Davis-Bacon prevailing wage laws for construction workers and would create job opportunities for building trades workers by investing billions of dollars in constructing and repairing our highways and bridges and communications and energy infrastructure. (Barack Obama Speech to Building Trades Conference, 4/15/08; Obama Transportation Infrastructure Plan; Campaign Website)