Survey of 2020 Presidential campaign websites: on Welfare & Poverty
Jo Jorgensen:
Government anti-poverty programs don't work
Government anti-poverty programs don't work. The cure for poverty is a vibrant economy that generates plentiful jobs and high wages, combined with an affordable cost of living. I will work to eliminate policies that cripple economic growth.
I will give special attention to regulations driving up the cost of housing & health care, as well as those creating barriers to new businesses. I will work to repeal laws that prevent individuals and charitable organizations from helping those in need.
Source: 2020 Presidential campaign website jo20.com
Jul 26, 2020
Tom Steyer:
Increase the earned income tax credit
Corporate influence in Congress has silenced labor groups, and halted progress on wages, retirement security, health care, and other issues affecting families across the country.
It's time to push power back to the people who actually do the work. Tom's first and best partner in organizing has always been organized labor.
As president, he will keep fighting for a minimum wage of at least $15 an hour, strengthen the right to organize, institute paid family leave, and make childcare more affordable and available.
Tom will invest in programs that work for working people: increasing the earned income tax credit, enforcing strong workplace protections, and fighting for a living wage.
Source: 2020 Presidential campaign website TomSteyer.com
Feb 3, 2020
Mike Bloomberg:
Create 1 million new black homeowners
Mike's plan lays out a path for the creation of 1 million new Black homeowners by providing down-payment assistance, getting millions banked and recognized by credit scoring companies, enforcing fair lending laws, reducing foreclosures and evictions
and increasing the supply of affordable housing. Mike will increase the supply of affordable housing units nationally--lowering costs for middle and low-income residents. He will expand the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit and enhance its value.
He will prioritize new transportation funding for areas that have undertaken progressive zoning reform and reward municipalities that support affordable housing development in neighborhoods with good schools, transportation, and economic opportunity.
Mike will make homelessness a national priority--and double federal spending on homelessness from under $3 billion to $6 billion annually.
Source: 2020 Presidential campaign website MikeBloomberg.com
Jan 20, 2020
Mike Bloomberg:
Created or preserved 175,000 affordable homes
Mike Bloomberg worked to improve life in NYC neighborhoods across the five boroughs. In 2013, NYC had the largest affordable housing program in the nation.
NYC added more than 850 acres of new parkland, created or preserved 175,000 affordable homes, and funded more than 100 public art installations across the five boroughs.
Source: 2020 Presidential campaign website MikeBloomberg.com
Nov 9, 2019
Joe Sestak:
War on Poverty made real improvements; let's do more
It has been more than 55 years since President Lyndon Johnson declared a "War on Poverty" in his 1964 State of the Union address. The official poverty rate in the United States then was 19%. Today, it stands at 12.3%.
By some measures, it is closer to 14%. While that does represent a real improvement, it is still a far cry from where we need to be as a nation.
Far too many people still lack the resources to provide for their basic needs, including food, water, shelter, electricity, and heating. Far too many children still go hungry, the only square meal they receive coming just five times
a week at their public school lunch. This should be unacceptable to all of us--and as President I will work every day to finally bring an end to poverty in America.
Source: 2020 presidential campaign website JoeSestak.com
Jun 23, 2019
Howie Hawkins:
Reintegrate urban amenities, like walkable mixed-use cities
The ecosocialist Green New Deal will rebuild and restructure our cities around egalitarian and ecological principles. Skyrocketing rents are driving working people out of their homes and communities. Sprawl development is a social and ecological
disaster. Segregation by race and class has been increasing for decades, isolating the poor away from resources and opportunities and isolating the rich away in their gated communities.We will campaign for an urban policy that will reintegrate
urban amenities with the natural environment. It would promote walkable mixed-use neighborhoods, convenient and affordable mass transit, clean energy, urban agriculture, green manufacturing, and a massive public housing program that is
high quality, mixed income, carbon negative, and scattered site across the city/suburbs divide. It will be a jobs program, a desegregation program, and a clean energy program as well as an affordable housing program.
Source: 2020 Presidential Campaign website HowieHawkins.us
May 19, 2019
John Delaney:
Invest in rural America: opportunity zones & doubled EITC
Investment has been concentrated in a small number of cities and rural America has been left behind. Reversing this trend requires investment:- Student loan forgiveness for people that live and work in these communities for 10 years
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Priority in government contracting to companies with a majority of employees in rural counties
- Fix opportunity zone legislation to focus more on operating businesses, rather than investing in real estate
- Double the EITC
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Incentivize companies to build negative emission technology in rural America and coal country
- Create new SBIC and SBA Loan programs to encourage entrepreneurship and focus venture capital investment in rural
America, particularly agricultural and climate disruptive technologies
- Support entrepreneurship in rural communities and mid-sized cities adjacent to rural America
Source: 2020 Presidential Campaign website JohnDelaney.com
May 2, 2019
Mike Gravel:
Redistribute wealth nationally, like Alaska Permanent Fund
American wealth is overwhelmingly concentrated in the wealthiest five percent of households: the top one percent own about 40 percent of national wealth. Social wealth funds, the most famous example of which is Norway's, are designed to combat this
inequality. An American social wealth fund, a national version of the Alaska Permanent Fund, would put money in Americans' pockets and redistribute wealth.
The United States should establish an American National Fund (ANF), based on Matt Bruenig's proposal of an "American Solidarity Fund," with funds from the new financial transactions tax, as well as a tax
on initial public offerings and an increased estate tax. Each year, 5 percent of the fund would be used toward a universal dividend for all Americans 18 and older.
Source: 2020 Presidential campaign website MikeGravel.com
Apr 9, 2019
Steve Bullock:
Passed statewide Earned Income Tax Credit
Working with a Republican legislature, he expanded Medicaid, passed an Earned Income Tax Credit, established the state's first public pre-K and passed one of the most progressive anti-dark money bills in the country.
At the same time, Bullock has repeatedly vetoed Republican bills that would have undermined public education, workers' rights, civil rights and a woman's right to choose.
Source: 2020 presidential PAC campaign website ourbigskyvalues.org
Mar 30, 2019
Julian Castro:
Government can help needy families get back on their feet
As the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, I worked to expand the promise of opportunity to Americans all over the nation. Together, my team and I made housing more accessible, lessened homelessness among our
nation's veterans and even offered internet access to families in public housing. We set out to help families get back on their feet and achieve more than they thought possible.
Source: 2020 Presidential campaign website JulianForTheFuture.com
Mar 27, 2019
Andrew Yang:
Create culture of lifting up the least among us
Meeting this week with a national gathering of Christian entrepreneurs was enlightening. I found that the themes of the campaign and their point of view are aligned in many important respects?--?a mindset of abundance, of community, and of lifting up
the least among us.Most people who are struggling today aren't struggling because of choices they made. Often economic hardship is the result of things outside of a person's control, like job loss, illness, or the place where they were born.
It can also be the result of a culture that cares more about stock portfolios than people in need.
Jesus' command to love our neighbor is at the heart of Christianity.
More than 70% of Americans call themselves Christians. My question for each one of them comes from 1 John 3:17: "How does God's love abide in anyone who has the world's goods and sees a brother or sister in need and yet refuses help?"
Source: 2020 presidential campaign website yang2020.com
May 15, 2018
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