AFL-CIO Panel Urges Obama to Focus on Economic Issues

By Nicole Henninger
Roll Call Staff
August 26, 2008, 6:38 p.m.

Liberal thinkers and activists appearing at a panel sponsored by the AFL-CIO agreed that presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama (Ill.) needs to appeal to working-class voters, including an emphasis on issues such as trade, minimum wage, health care and taxes.



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