Kamala Harris on Jobs Democratic candidate for President (withdrawn); California Senator

Will sign PRO Act: Public Service Freedom to Negotiate Act

$100M for manufacturers and labor unions in EV industry

Today, Vice President Harris announced new funding for auto manufacturers and autoworkers:
• More than $100 million in funding for small- and medium-sized auto parts manufacturers to expand or retool manufacturing facilities
• The Department of Energy is setting aside up to $50 million of its Industrial Assessments Center Implementation Grants Program to help auto suppliers kickstart manufacturing diversification and conversion projects.
• The Small Business Administration will catalyze millions of dollars in private capital for the EV supply chain
• The Department of Labor recently awarded $7 million across Indiana and Ohio to develop sector partnerships that bring together the public workforce and education system, community-based organizations, employers, and labor unions focused on the EV industry.

Women are still only paid 80 cents compared to $1 for men

People are having children in their 30s, often in their 40s, which means that these families and parents are often raising young children AND taking care of their parents, which requires a lot of work. And what we are seeing in America today is the burden principally falls on women to do that work.

The reality also is that women are not paid equal for equal work in America. We passed the Equal Pay Act in 1963, but fast forward to the year of our lord 2019, and women are paid 80 cents on the dollar, black women 61 cents, Native American women 58 cents, Latinas 53 cents.

So my policy is about -- there's a whole collection of the work that I am doing that is focused on women and working women in America and the inequities and, therefore, the injustice that women in America are facing that needs to be resolved and addressed.

Require "equal pay certification" for government contracts

Time for action: enforce equal pay for equal work

Raise the federal minimum wage to $15/hour

19 CANDIDATES HAVE SIMILAR VIEWS: Joseph Biden, Jr.; Cory Booker; Steve Bullock; Peter Buttigieg; Julian Castro; Bill de Blasio; John Delaney; Tulsi Gabbard; Kirsten Gillibrand; John Hickenlooper; Jay Inslee; Amy Klobuchar; Seth Moulton; Beto O`Rourke; Tim Ryan; Bernard Sanders; Eric Swalwell; Elizabeth Warren; Marianne Williamson.

There's broad support among Democratic presidential candidates for doubling the hourly minimum from $7.25 to $15, and then allowing it to rise automatically with inflation, as proposed by House Democrats in the Raise the Wage Act. Even centrists like Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper and former Vice President Joe Biden favor this. In 2016, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton favored going only to $12 (though she expressed strong support for states that raised it to $15).