Marking Labor Day, Obama extends contractors paid sick leave

BOSTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says Republicans who stand in the way of helping workers have been wrecking the economy for “a long, long time.”
Obama is marking Labor Day by addressing a major union rally and breakfast in Boston. He says he’s glad Republicans are trying to rebrand themselves as the party of the middle class. But he says their rhetoric is all talk and no action.
Obama says opponents of his economic policies don’t let facts or evidence get in th