Need a cabinet department to focus on children and youth
We have millions of American children who go to school every day in schools that do not even have the adequate school supplies with which to teach 8-year-old to read. If they can't read, the chances of high school graduation, it's drastically
diminished, and the chances of incarceration is drastically increased. We should rescue these children, no differently than we would rescue them from a natural disaster. We need a United States cabinet-level Department of Children and Youth.
Source: CNN Town Hall 2020 Democratic primary
, Apr 14, 2019
Maternity/paternity leave; free prenatal care and childcare
As long as there is a dearth of women in positions of political power, this chronic tilting of American priorities toward short-term economic interests as opposed to humanitarian values is understandable. As long as women are basically invisible,
children are invisible as well. A Williamson Administration would be not only a victory for women, but it would also be a victory for our children, and for our future as a nation. As president, I would advocate for the following:
Proper prenatal
care, regardless of ability to pay.
Proper healthcare for pregnant women.
Maternal and Paternal leave.
Affordable childcare and Universal pre-K.
Nutritional excellence in food that is served and sold at public schools.
