Democratic candidates debate in Detroit Michigan, July 30-31, 2019: on Jobs
Andrew Yang:
Empower women entrepreneurs with my $1000 per month plan
I have seen firsthand the inequities in the business world where women are concerned, particularly in start-ups and entrepreneurship. We have to give women the economic freedom to be able to improve their own situations and start businesses,
and the best way to do this is by putting a dividend of $1,000 a month into their hands. It would be a game-changer for women around the country, because we know that women do more of the unrecognized and uncompensated work in our society.
Source: July Democratic Primary debate (second night in Detroit)
Jul 31, 2019
Jay Inslee:
Pay increases for teachers, nurses, and female-majority jobs
We need to think about a bigger scandal in America, which is that in professions and careers where women have been more than the majority, they have been almost always underpaid. I'm proud to be the governor who won the largest pay increase
for our educators in the United States. That is long, long overdue. I think it is true for nursing staff as well. And I'm glad that we've increased our union membership 10% so unions can stand up for women as well.
Source: July Democratic Primary debate (second night in Detroit)
Jul 31, 2019
Kamala Harris:
Time for action: enforce equal pay for equal work
Since 1963, when we passed the Equal Pay Act, we have been talking about the fact women are not paid equally for equal work. I'm done with the conversation. I am proposing to require corporations to post on their website whether they
are paying women equally for equal work. They will be fined for every 1% differential between what they're paying men and women, they will be fined 1% of their previous year's profit. That will get everybody's attention. Time for action.
Source: July Democratic Primary debate (second night in Detroit)
Jul 31, 2019
Bernie Sanders:
Ain't nobody in Congress more pro-worker than I am
Gov. Steve Bullock: All of us agree that we have address climate change. The Republicans won't even acknowledge that climate change is real, and that's because of the corrupting influence and money. As we transition to this clean energy economy, there
are folks that have spent their whole life powering our country, and far too often, Democrats sound like they're part of the problem.SANDERS: Look, Steve, there ain't nobody in the Congress who's more strongly pro-worker than I am.
So when I talk about taking on the fossil fuel industry, what I am also talking about is a just transition. We can create what the Green New Deal is about. We can create millions of good-paying jobs. We can rebuild communities in rural
America that have been devastated. So we are not anti-worker. We are going to provide and make sure that those workers have a transition, new jobs, healthcare and education.
Source: July Democratic Primary debate (first night in Detroit)
Jul 30, 2019
Elizabeth Warren:
New jobs part of fighting climate change; it's all connected
I put a real policy on the table to create 1.2 million new jobs in green manufacturing. There's going to be a $23 trillion worldwide market for this. This could revitalize huge cities across this country. What you want to do instead is
find the Republican talking point and say, "Oh, we don't really have to do anything." That's the problem we've got in Washington. It works great for oil companies, just not for people worried about climate change.
Source: July Democratic Primary debate (first night in Detroit)
Jul 30, 2019
Pete Buttigieg:
Let gig workers unionize
Q: What is your plan for retraining workers whose jobs are at risk?Buttigieg: Of course we need to do retraining. But this is so much bigger than a trade fight. This is about a moment when the economy is changing before our eyes.
There are people in the gig economy who go through more jobs in a week than my parents went through in their lifetime. It's why I've proposed that we allow gig workers to unionize, because a gig is a job and a worker is a worker.
Source: July Democratic Primary debate (first night in Detroit)
Jul 30, 2019
Pete Buttigieg:
Raise minimum wage, like Scripture tells us
In addition to confronting tech, in addition to supporting workers by double unionization, as I propose to do, some of this is low-tech, too, like the minimum wage is just too low. And so-called conservative
Christian senators right now in the Senate are blocking a bill to raise the minimum wage, when scripture says that whoever oppresses the poor taunts their maker.
Source: July Democratic Primary debate (first night in Detroit)
Jul 30, 2019
Tim Ryan:
Create national Chief Manufacturing Officer
Q: Your state of Ohio has around 96,000 workers in auto manufacturing. Senator Sanders is co-sponsoring a bill that would eliminate new gas-powered car sales by 2040. Given the number of auto manufacturing workers in your state, how concerned
are you about Senator Sanders' plan?RYAN: Well, if we get our act together, we won't have to worry about it. My plan is to create a chief manufacturing officer so we could actually start making things in the
United States again, that would pull the government [to] work with the private sector, work with investors, emerging tech companies, to dominate the electric vehicle market. China dominates it now, 50% to 60%. I want us to dominate the battery
market, make those here in the United States and cut the workers in on the deal. The charging stations, solar panels, same thing; China dominates 60% of the solar panel market.
Source: July Democratic Primary debate (first night in Detroit)
Jul 30, 2019
Tim Ryan:
Middle-class need 2 or 3 jobs just to get by
America is great, but not everyone can access America's greatness. The systems that were built to lift us up are now suffocating the American people. The economic system that used to create
$30, $40, $50 an hour jobs that you can have a good, solid middle-class living now force us to have two or three jobs just to get by.
Source: July Democratic Primary debate (first night in Detroit)
Jul 30, 2019
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