What do you think of this political agenda? * Invest in our crumbling infrastructure... to create jobs by rebuilding roads, bridges, water systems, waste water plants, airports, railroads and schools. * Transform energy systems away from fossil fuels to create jobs while beginning to reverse global warming and make the planet habitable for future generations. * Develop new economic models to support workers in the United States instead of giving tax breaks to corporations which ship jobs to low-wage countries overseas. * Make it easier for workers to join unions and bargain for higher wages and benefits. * Raise the federal minimum wage from $7.25 an hour so no one who works forty hours a week will live in poverty. * Provide equal pay for women workers who now make 78 percent of what male counterparts make. * Reform trade policies that have shuttered more than 60,000 factories and cost more than 4.9 million decent-paying manufacturing jobs. * Make college affordable and provide affordable childcare to restore America’s competitive edge compared to other nations. * Break up big banks. The six largest banks now have assets equivalent to 61 percent of our gross domestic product, over $9.8 trillion. They underwrite more than half the mortgages in the country and issue more than two-thirds of all credit cards. * Join the rest of the industrialized world with a Medicare-for-all healthcare system that provides better care at less cost. * Expand Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and nutrition programs. * Reform the tax code based on wage earners’ ability to pay and eliminate loopholes that let profitable corporations stash profits overseas and pay no US federal income taxes.
Posted on: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 12:35:09 +0000
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015