Interviews during 2017-2019: on Jobs
Jo Jorgensen:
Opposes minimum wage; it hurts minorities and youth
Q: What is your position on the minimum wage?A: I oppose it. Government must not interfere with voluntary contracts between employers and employees.
The research is clear--the minimum wage hurts minorities and those entering the job force the most.
Source: AFA iVoterGuide on 2020 presidential hopefuls
Nov 3, 2020
Jo Jorgensen:
Eliminate all wage standards
Q: Raise federal hourly minimum wage above current $7.25/hour?Jo Jorgensen: No. No raise to federal minimum wage; eliminate all wage standards.
Howie Hawkins: Yes. Supports $20 hourly minimum wage. "All citizens shall have the rights to a minimum income sufficient to meet basic needs."
Source: CampusElect on 2020 presidential hopefuls
Aug 30, 2020
Gloria La Riva:
Restrict employers' asking about criminal records
We call for the immediate amnesty for all non-violent offenders currently incarcerated.
We call for disallowing employers from inquiring about an applicant's past criminal record not directly related to the occupational task to be performed, including eliminating the check off box for felons.
Source: Socialist PSL Platform adopted by 2020 presidential hopeful
Aug 3, 2020
Jo Jorgensen:
No required unions; no occupational licensing laws
We favor repealing any requirement that one must join or pay dues to a union as a condition of government employment.
We advocate replacing defined-benefit pensions with defined- contribution plans, as are commonly offered in the private sector, so as not to impose debt on future generations without their consent.
Libertarians support the right of every person to earn an honest and peaceful living through the free and voluntary exchange of goods and services.
Accordingly, we oppose occupational and other licensing laws that infringe on this right or treat it as a state-granted privilege. We encourage certifications by voluntary associations of professionals.
Source: Libertarian Platform adopted by 2020 presidential hopeful
May 22, 2020
Bill de Blasio:
Would raise the NYC minimum wage to $15/hour
The mayor has advocated for a $15 minimum wage in New York.
Source: Townhall.com: "The 2020 Democrats" (presidential hopefuls)
May 18, 2019
Andrew Yang:
Monthly stipend would help us through technological changes
We've automated away 4 million manufacturing jobs in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Missouri, Iowa. We need to think about how we're going to help Americans transition through this time. My flagship proposal is a freedom
dividend of $1,000 per month for every American adult. It would help tens of millions of Americans transition through what is the greatest economic and technological transformation in our country's history, which we're going through right now.
Source: CNN Town Hall: 2020 presidential hopefuls
Apr 14, 2019
Andrew Yang:
I'm a huge union fan
I'm a huge union fan. When I sit with union leaders and I say, you know what's going to help your union membership is if you have a dividend of $1,000 a month
[as in my flagship proposal] because it ends up making it possible for unions to negotiate much harder, since then they have something they can fall back on? So this is a very pro-union plan. I'm fan of the right to organize.
Source: CNN Town Hall: 2020 presidential hopefuls
Apr 14, 2019
Wayne Messam:
Supported boosting minimum wage
Messam also supported a "living wage" for
Miramar city, putting full and part-time workers above the state minimum wage.
Source: Townhall.com on 2020 presidential hopefuls
Mar 28, 2019
Pete Buttigieg:
Consider guaranteed income, perhaps redefine work
There's an experiment in Stockton where they're distributing payments to people to make sure that that income floor is lifted. There are too many Americans who couldn't find even $400 in an emergency to get them through that. I'm not yet sure
that that's the right way to go, but it's the sort of bold policy we should contemplate, especially if it's connected to work. Maybe we ought to broaden our definition of work. If you are taking care of a parent or raising a child, isn't that work?
Source: CNN Town Hall: back-to-back 2020 presidential hopefuls
Mar 10, 2019
Jay Inslee:
Increase minimum wage; ensure gender pay equity
Inslee supports increasing the minimum wage, which is currently $12 in Washington state and will rise to $13.50 in 2020. Inslee signed into law a guaranteed paid family leave plan in 2017,
granting eligible parents 12 weeks paid time off for the birth or adoption of a child or for a serious medical condition. He also signed an Equal Pay Opportunity Act that requires employees receive equal pay and work opportunities regardless of gender.
Inslee opposes the Trump administration's trade policies. He has said that "any punitive tariffs to the Asian markets are felt deeply" in the state of Washington.
Inslee believes in a positive working relationship with trade partners and open access to foreign trade markets.
Source: PBS News hour on 2020 Presidential hopefuls
Mar 1, 2019
Amy Klobuchar:
Minimum wage must be raised
It is an unbelievable thing that we have not increased the federal minimum wage for something like a decade. And it's just stuck where it is.
And we should be increasing the minimum wage. That brings up the wage everywhere.
Source: CNN Town Hall: 2020 presidential hopefuls
Feb 18, 2019
Bill Weld:
In-state training for displaced workers, including on-line
What are we going to do about the fact that 25% of all the jobs in the United States today won't exist in 15 years? The old jobs will be replaced by new and different jobs, but the problem is that today's workers don't yet possess the skill sets
that the replacement jobs will require. This truly is a national emergency.The skills required by the new jobs correspond roughly to the skills now taught in the first two years of post-secondary education, or the community college level.
We should adjust our budget priorities to cover the cost of in-state tuition for those displaced workers, as we did for our returning veterans under the G.I. Bill. To cut down on room and board expense, we should encourage and embrace on-line education.
It has now been proved that distance learning is as effective as learning in a bricks and mortar classroom, so we should take advantage of that.
Source: Speech in New Hampshire by 2020 presidential hopefuls
Feb 15, 2019
Cory Booker:
Supports $15 minimum wage and guaranteed jobs
Booker supports a $15 minimum wage and calls it "unacceptable" for Americans to "work a full-time job and still live in poverty." He also backs a pilot program that would provide grants to guarantee everyone a job and paid sick leave. Last year,
Booker sponsored legislation to eliminate the income gap by creating a savings account for every child that could grow to as much as $46,000 by their 18th birthday. The "opportunity account" could be used to pay for home ownership or higher education.
Source: PBS News hour on 2020 Presidential hopefuls
Feb 1, 2019
Beto O`Rourke:
Invest in training for evolving economy
Invest in training or for the certification or the skills that will command that high-skill, high-wage, high-value job. Does not come inexpensively. It involves an investment that we have to make. When that person is able to work, they're able not only
to take care of their families, but contribute back to the success of their community, of this state, and of this country. I want to make sure that we make investments in people, not corporations and political action committees.
Source: CNN Town Hall: 2020 presidential hopefuls
Oct 18, 2018
Eric Garcetti:
Universal pathway to employment
Garcetti called for stricter gun restrictions. He's pro-choice. He prefers a "universal pathway to employment" over the universal basic income proposal some have offered. As a Mexican-American Jew, he proudly touts his own immigrant ancestry.While
Garcetti is not afraid to talk policy, he posits that's not how elections are won. "We need to speak plain English again," Garcetti said of Democrats. "We can't be the smarty-pants party anymore. I know we have good ideas and once we're in power
we should do them, but when we're running elections, people don't want to know your 10-point plan for things. They want to know if you connect with them as a human being."
Garcetti sought to cast the glitzy reputation of LA as not so estranged from
the everyday problems of Americans elsewhere. "Yes, it's true, I come from Los Angeles," he said. "But we are people who have dreams and hopes and are just as frustrated as you are about the direction of this country."
Source: J. Lovegrove in Post & Courier on 2020 presidential hopefuls
Feb 24, 2018
Tom Steyer:
Closed tax loophole on out of state business, creating jobs
Tom Steyer is a California business leader, philanthropist and advanced energy advocate. In 2010, Tom teamed up with former Secretary of State George Shultz to defeat Proposition 23, an effort by out-of-state oil companies to dismantle
California's groundbreaking clean energy law. In 2012, Tom served as co-chair with Shultz for Yes on Proposition 39, which closed a tax loophole for out-of-state corporations and created jobs in California.
Source: K.McIntosh, HamiltonProject.org: 2020 presidential hopefuls
Jan 1, 2018
Steve Bullock:
Guarantee equal pay for women
Bullock is understandably queasy about being labeled a capital-P Progressive. He walked the line during his 2016 reelection campaign: Although one of his campaign ads, narrated by his daughter, was about the need to guarantee equal pay for
women, a liberal priority that many conservatives oppose and which is rarely a top-line campaign topic for Democrats in tight races, he also ran ads calling himself a fiscal conservative while slamming his wealthy opponent's proposed sales tax.
Source: Politico.com on 2020 presidential hopefuls
Oct 11, 2017
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