I'm Michael Bennet: This is why I want Colorado's vote in the midterm election

People are working harder than ever, but can’t afford some combination of housing, health care, child care, or higher education.

The choice in this election is whether we will build on the progress we’ve made, or revert to the failed policies that made our economy less fair, our future less bright, and our democracy at risk. Democrat Michael Bennet represents Colorado in the United States Senate.

The result has been catastrophic: the worst income inequality since the 1920s; the lowest economic mobility since the 1940s; the third-highest rate of child poverty among developed nations. An economy that has relentlessly channeled all the benefits to the top 10 percent for decades, even as incomes for everyone else flatlined.

As Washington took its hands off the wheel, dangerous headwinds gathered: national infrastructure in disrepair; broken supply chains; a health care system that covers too few and costs too much; an education system that reinforces inequality; an immigration system that leaves families in limbo and farms and businesses without labor; and an energy policy that, until recently, did nothing to fight climate change, lower prices, or secure our energy independence.