Democrat agenda targets ‘old-fashioned capitalism’

Published July 24, 2017 7:25pm ET



Congressional Democrats targeted “old fashioned capitalism” in a new agenda announced Monday that they hope will lure in some of the voters who picked President Trump and the GOP in the 2016 election.

The “Better Deal” agenda regurgitates many of the old Democratic ideas of raising the minimum wage, increasing spending on infrastructure and penalizing companies that move overseas.

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