Issue Position: What Policies Do You Support to Reduce Poverty?
Issue Position
Issues: Unemployed and Low-Income
The most direct ways to reduce poverty are to increase the minimum wage and reduce taxes on the poorest members of our society. We must ensure that men and women working 40 hours a week can provide for their families. We need a livable minimum wage, and we need a more progressive and equitable tax system.
Too often, politicians focus only on the short term. The long term answer to our unconscionable level of poverty is investing in our public education system. In Congress, I will continue my lifelong work supporting our public school teachers, paraprofessionals, and students. Instead of unfunded mandates, we must provide high quality teaching and high technology classrooms in which all students can achieve their full potential.
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