Survey of 2016 Presidential campaign websites: on Welfare & Poverty
Evan McMullin:
More government poverty programs aren't the single answer
Nearly 50 million Americans live below the poverty line, and millions more struggle just to get by. While America is a compassionate nation, more government programs aren't the single answer to addressing the least fortunate.
Those who can work should have the opportunity to work, and those who need the training and education to become productive should receive it.
Source: 2016 presidential campaign website EvanMcMullin.com
Aug 12, 2016
Gloria La Riva:
Make affordable housing a Constitutional right
- For the earth to live, capitalism must end
- Make a job a Constitutional right
- Make free health care, free education & affordable housing Constitutional rights: These are essentials of life and should not be run for profit.
Create a completely free and public health-care system. Make education free-cancel all student debt. Stop all foreclosures and evictions-end all mortgage interest payments to the banks.
Source: 2016 presidential campaign website http://www.votepsl.org/
Feb 3, 2016
Jill Stein:
Economic human rights: food, water, & housing
End Poverty: Guarantee economic human rights, including access to food, water, housing, and utilities, with effective anti-poverty programs to ensure every American a life of dignity.Jobs as a Right: Create living-wage jobs for every American who need
Source: 2016 presidential campaign website, jill2016.com, "Plan"
Jun 25, 2015
George Pataki:
Replace dependency with opportunity
It seems like liberals have so much compassion for the poor that they keep creating more of them. When I took office, we had every poverty program Government could think of, yet one in 11 of every New Yorker was on welfare. Not Social Security or
Disability. One in 11 of every man, woman and child in the state of New York, from the tip of Long Island to the shores of Lake Erie, was on welfare.The American Dream did not seem real to them.
But after 12 years of my conservative policies, we replaced dependency with opportunity, resignation with hope, mere existence with dreams, and a welfare check with a pay check. When I left office over 1 million fewer people were on
welfare than when I began.
Conservative policies replaced dependency with opportunity in New York State. I know we can do the same thing in the United States.
Source: 2016 presidential campaign website: Announcement speech
May 28, 2015
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