Category: Income Inequality (Page 2 of 9)

Jane's For Jobs!

September 9, 2016 / MCDC

A well-paying, meaningful job for every adult is at the root of addressing most of the fundamental challenges of our country. Jane supports essential job growth by working with localities to determine and then represent their economic objectives in Washington.

Our rural neighbors are without access to basic information, telemedicine, emergency services, online job postings, veteran’s online services, and telecommuting opportunities. Children, whose homework increasingly relies on Internet resources, fall behind while parents cannot pursue job applications found only on the Internet. With all of the obstacles our economies already face, the lack of access to this essential infrastructure is a roadblock to success and is crippling to our rural families. Jane knows where the resources exist to provide affordable, reliable Internet access, and Jane will work relentlessly to ensure that those resources are brought home to the 5th district.

Virginia Together

August 3, 2016 / MCDC

It’s a simple but powerful idea: we are stronger together.

“I did not start as a Democrat — I was actually a Republican. As I became more aware of the world outside of the sphere in which I was born, I realized that I wanted to identify with a group of Americans who fought for and held dear the values of economic, social, and religious freedom.” — Laura

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Bernie Sanders' DNC Speech

July 26, 2016 / MCDC

We need leadership in this country which will improve the lives of working families, the children, the elderly, the sick and the poor. We need leadership which brings our people together and makes us stronger – not leadership which insults Latinos, Muslims, women, African-Americans and veterans – and divides us up.

By these measures, any objective observer will conclude that – based on her ideas and her leadership – Hillary Clinton must become the next president of the United States. The choice is not even close.

Out of many, we are one: The Official 2016 Democratic Party Platform

July 22, 2016 / MCDC

In 2016, Democrats meet in Philadelphia with the same basic belief that animated the Continental Congress when they gathered here 240 years ago: Out of many, we are one.

Under President Obama’s leadership, and thanks to the hard work and determination of the American people, we have come a long way from the Great Recession and the Republican policies that triggered it. American businesses have now added 14.8 million jobs since private sector job growth turned positive in early 2010. Twenty million people have gained health insurance coverage. The American auto industry just had its best year ever. And we are getting more of our energy from the sun and wind, and importing less oil from overseas.

But too many Americans have been left out and left behind. They are working longer hours with less security. Wages have barely budged and the racial wealth gap remains wide, while the cost of everything from childcare to a college education has continued to rise. And for too many families, the dream of homeownership is out of reach. As working people struggle, the top one percent accrues more wealth and more power. Republicans in Congress have chosen gridlock and dysfunction over trying to find solutions to the real challenges we face. It’s no wonder that so many feel like the system is rigged against them.

Democrats believe that cooperation is better than conflict, unity is better than division, empowerment is better than resentment, and bridges are better than walls.

It’s a simple but powerful idea: we are stronger together.

A Progressive Agenda to Cut Poverty and Expand Opportunity

June 7, 2016 / MCDC

Today, a staggering one in three Americans—more than 105 million people—live in poverty or are teetering on the economic brink with incomes of less than twice the poverty line. New analysis by the Center for American Progress finds that if not for the dramatic rise in economic insecurity since 2000, nearly 13 million fewer Americans would be living on the edge today.

Policies based on failed theories such as trickle-down economics have played a central role in the nation’s unsustainable levels of income inequality and have contributed to widespread instability. It is long past time to put these policies, which favor the wealthy few at the expense of working families, in the rearview mirror where they belong. It is not the wealth of the rich but rather a stable and secure middle class that is the key to economic growth. A robust middle class provides the consumer base and economic demand that drive investment and productivity. What’s more, the middle class is strongly linked to economic mobility: Analyses from the Center for American Progress show that areas of the United States with larger middle classes have greater levels of economic mobility among working families.

https://www.scribd.com/doc/314715498/A-Progressive-Agenda-to-Cut-Poverty-and-Expand-Opportunity?secret_password=u11S1fIzP4hTvFwz7b77

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