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This is the country where if you work hard, you can make it. And each generation is supposed to have it a little better than the one before. Hillary Clinton, 10/23/14
Opposing outsourcing. Hillary Clinton called for eliminating any tax break that promotes or rewards outsourcing, and she suggested a plan to close those loopholes in the U.S. tax code. She also proposed a new tax credit called the Insourcing Markets Tax Credit to boost investment in communities across America hurt by international trade and technology. Hillary voted in support of legislation that discouraged outsourcing in the private sector, and she also voted to restrict federal agencies from outsourcing work.
Giving workers family and sick leave. Hillary Clinton proposed a $1 billion per year innovation fund to encourage states to develop family leave and paid leave policies and repeatedly cosponsored legislation to provide seven paid sick days a year to American workers. President Obama called for similar actions in his 2015 State of the Union Address, noting that he would be taking new action to help states adopt paid leave laws of their own and calling on Congress to Send me a bill that gives every worker in America the opportunity to earn seven days of paid sick leave. Hillary also called for providing paid parental leave to all federal employees, an action President Obama has taken steps on with a recent Presidential Memorandum.
Spurring advanced manufacturing jobs. Hillary Clinton introduced bills to bring new manufacturing technology to small and medium-sized businesses. She called for doubling the funding for Manufacturing Extension Partnerships, public-private partnerships that help manufacturers, and proposed expanding them to focus on renewable energy. Hillary worked across the aisle to challenge the Bush Administrations cuts to these partnerships and she also cofounded the bipartisan Senate Manufacturing Caucus.
Standing against unfair Chinese trade practices. Hillary Clinton voted in support of authorizing action on Chinese imports if the Chinese government did not reform its currency practices. She also urged the U.S. International Trade Commission to crack down on Chinese metals sold in the U.S. at unfairly low prices, noting that if industrial companies do not receive appropriate relief from the impact of unfair foreign trade practices, the situations for these companies, and for working men and women, will only grow worse.
Expanding job training opportunities for workers. Hillary Clinton has praised the idea of a national skills corporation to focus American efforts on job training, and in 2007 she called for doubling the funding for job training programs for workers displaced by international competition. Hillary also introduced bills to create Regional Skills Alliances to bring together local businesses, governments educational institutions and labor organizations to collaborate on new programs to train workers for modern technology jobs.
Protecting worker compensation. Hillary Clinton cosponsored legislation to expand protections for workers pensions and cosponsored bills to protect overtime pay for working Americans. Fighting alongside her Senate colleagues against the Bush Administrations efforts to cut overtime pay for millions of workers, she said on the Senate floor, I have yet to hear a compelling reason that some workers currently eligible for overtime should lose that eligibility. Hillary also cosponsored legislation to strengthen the law requiring employers to give workers advance notice before mass layoffs are announced.
Fighting for steel and mine workers. Hillary Clinton cosponsored legislation to strengthen safety protections for coal miners and she proposed expanding the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA)s power to penalize companies that violate mine safety laws. Hillary also cosponsored bills to secure health care coverage for laid off and retired steelworkers. Describing the 2002 legislation, Senator Rockefeller (D-W.V.) said it would provide desperately needed medical care to retirees whose companies have been forced out of business by imports.
Helping Americans save for the future. In 2007 Hillary Clinton proposed giving all workers the opportunity to easily save for the future in portable American Retirement Accounts. Workers would be able to keep this retirement account with them if they changed jobs and the plan would allow workers to save up to $5,000 a year on a tax-deferred basis. Workers could choose how they want to invest the savings and they would be able to tap into the savings penalty-free for major life investments like college, buying a home, and retirement. The Washington Post editorial board noted that Hillarys plan was the boldest of the campaign to address this troubling situation.
Jumpin Jack Flash
(242 posts)Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)It is just not right to take other peoples work and pass it off without some kind of attribution. The OP has done this on many posts in the last hour or so.
morningfog
(18,115 posts)Of campaign finance law? Super!
dlwickham
(3,316 posts)morningfog
(18,115 posts)It brazen and insulting. Big Campaign barreling through. I just hope the voters can see through the money and the bullshit.
m-lekktor
(3,675 posts)PowerToThePeople
(9,610 posts)And each generation is supposed to have it a little better than the one before, but don't.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)union killing programs.
HRC has to pick a side. Goldman-Sachs or unions.
MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)which three battles that she's led and won have been the biggest wins for the 99%?
DJ13
(23,671 posts)Just a guess.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)About Nigeria's ban on mutilation of female genital, a big win after years of trying to get some of the violence against women worldwide, these are not normally in the 1%.
MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)What part did she play in the admirable ban?
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)Is that the best thing she's done?
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Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)demmiblue
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Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)Maybe the OP will do the right thing and edit to fix.
morningfog
(18,115 posts)Hence, they would rather leave the OP source-less and link-less and risk a copyright violation.
Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)dlwickham
(3,316 posts)Opposing outsourcing http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/14/AR2008041401413.html
Giving workers family and sick leave http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=77061
Spurring advanced manufacturing jobs https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/senate-bill/429
Standing against unfair Chinese trade practices http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=1&vote=00086
Expanding job training opportunities for workers https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/labor/news/2004/03/03/634/keep-america-working-restoring-jobs-to-ensure-american-prosperity/
Protecting worker compensation https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/senate-bill/1992
Helping Americans save for the future http://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/12/21/clinton.trans.retirement/
dlwickham
(3,316 posts)seems pretty simple
morningfog
(18,115 posts)and it has gone unanswered this far.
Agschmid
(28,749 posts)morningfog
(18,115 posts)Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)seems some people are more equal than others here. Sad thing.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)Free trade agreements don't cause offshore outsourcing (India and China do most of the outsourcing business with the US).
Every D Presidential candidate for 15 years has made that same pledge, and wound up having nothing in the tax code that really qualifies.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Cause.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)I acknowledge it's primary-time red meat (I'm sure Sanders and O'Malley have said or will say similar things) it's just not an actually meaningful policy. There's very little in the tax code that actually addresses offshoring.
morningfog
(18,115 posts)Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)See, this pro Hillary. They think they do not have to follow the rules. She is entitled.
demmiblue
(36,854 posts)morningfog
(18,115 posts)Just doing their job.
Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)Sad to think some think they are above the rules.
jeff47
(26,549 posts)(Gotta love the irony of the same copyright-violating poster posting it)
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)by the Conservative Wing of our Party and they oppose the disastrous TPP.
I will believe that HRC want's to protect unions when she openly opposes the TPP. Otherwise, what you printed in the OP is just so much rhetoric.