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Issue Position: Legislative Priorities

Issue Position

Date: Jan. 1, 2014
Issues: Unemployed and Low-Income Minors and Children Employment and Affirmative Action Labor Unions Agriculture and Food K-12 Education Infrastructure Health and Health Care Food Processing and Sales Housing and Property

Job Creation/Labor/Workforce
*Creating an environment that fosters job growth for the underemployed, unskilled, undereducated, chronically unemployed and long time unemployed;
*Focusing on sustaining current jobs by supporting the national labor movement (i.e. trade agreements and bargaining rights); and
*Promoting infrastructure projects as a method to create jobs.

Nutrition
*Eradicating childhood obesity;
*Increasing access to healthy foods, especially in underserved communities;
*Decreasing the rate of hunger, especially among children and seniors; and
*Bringing fresh food to cities through non-traditional farming (i.e. urban farming).

Voter Protection
*Safeguarding the rights of voters, especially populations that are traditionally targeted by voter suppression. This is Rep. Fudge's current civil rights priority.

Medicare/Medicaid/Social Security
*Protecting Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security from budgetary cuts and unfair characterizations; and
*Supporting updates and improvements to the Sustainable Growth Rate.

Education
*Increasing access to high quality public education, particularly for those children in underperforming subgroups;
*Improving higher education opportunities;
*Ensuring that accountability standards are maintained in the Elementary and Secondary Education Act; and
*Decreasing education disparities (i.e. supporting closure of the achievement gap and promoting educational equity among all).

Housing
*Tracking and addressing present day challenges, such as foreclosure mitigation and prevention; and
*Promoting redevelopment and rebuilding in communities hardest hit by the foreclosure crisis.


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