EXPANDING ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL

• Unemployment Down to 3.4%: The unemployment rate in North Carolina has declined from 5.5% to 3.4% since 1993.

• 709,300 New Jobs: 709,300 new jobs have been created in North Carolina since 1993 -- an average of 100,136 per year, compared to an average of just 38,625 jobs per year in the previous administration.

• 620,600 New Private Sector Jobs: Since 1993, 620,600 new private sector jobs have been created—an average of 87,614 jobs per year, compared to an average of just 25,125 private sector jobs per year in the previous administration.

• 77,700 New Construction Jobs: 77,700 construction jobs have been created in North Carolina since 1993 -- an average of 10,969 jobs per year. In contrast, an average of 4,000 construction jobs were lost each year during the previous administration.

Despite Republican attempts to block progress at every turn, Democrats have accomplished more in the past six months than Republicans accomplished in the past six years. Democrats will work to make our country more secure, change course in Iraq, and clean up Washington.

Even with Republicans fighting us at every step, Democrats also have passed:

• funding to ensure first responders have the tools they need to do their jobs and enhance security at our airports, ports and mass transit facilities
• a raise in the minimum wage for the first time in a decade
• health care for millions of low-income children health care
• pay-as-you-go budgeting that restores fiscal responsibility to Washington
• tough ethics and lobbying reforms reversing the Republican culture of corruption
• energy legislation that creates jobs and strengthens national security
• a pay raise for our troops
• improvements to the care our veterans receive when they come home from battle
• legislation that makes higher education affordable for more Americans
• funding to help rebuild the Gulf Coast

• Farm Loan Bank Act (Woodrow Wilson)
• Federal Crop Loan Act (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
• Rural Electrification Act (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
• Farmer's Home Administration (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
• Soil Conservation Service (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
• Rural Telephone Act (Harry Truman)
• Agricultural Adjustment Administration (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
• Cooperative Extension Service (Woodrow Wilson)
• Farm Loan Housing Act (Harry Truman)

• Clean Water Act (100th Congress, over President Reagan's Veto)
• Clean Air Act (John F. Kennedy)

• United Nations (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
• League of Nations (Woodrow Wilson)
• Atlantic Charter (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
• Marshall Plan (Harry Truman)
• Monroe Doctrine (James Monroe)
• Atmospheric Test Ban Treaty (John F. Kennedy)
• NATO (Harry Truman)
• Truman Doctrine (Harry Truman)
• Peace Corps (John F. Kennedy)
• Louisiana Purchase (Thomas Jefferson)
• Camp David Accord (Jimmy Carter)

• Creation of a Cabinet Level Labor Department (Woodrow Wilson)
• The 8 Hour Workday and Overtime (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
• National Labor Relations Act (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
• Minimum Wage Law (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
• Unemployment Compensation Law (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
• Civilian Conservation Corp (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
• The Full Employment Act for Labor (Harry Truman)
• Family and Medical Leave Act (Bill Clinton)
• Worker's Compensation (Woodrow Wilson)
• Raised North Carolina's Minimum Wage (Gov. Mike Easley)

• Women's Suffrage Amendment (Woodrow Wilson)
• VISTA (John F. Kennedy)
• Voting Rights Act of 1965 (Lyndon Johnson)
• Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Lyndon Johnson)
• National Voter Registration Act (Bill Clinton)
• Americans with Disabilities Act (101st Congress)