JOBS & THE ECONOMY

People are starving and struggling to pay bills month after month while politicians in DC—much like Nevada’s own Legislature—take years to debate whether $12 or $15 per hour is a more palatable option for working class families. Meanwhile, the cost of living continues to skyrocket, inflation rises, and our families are left in the dust. The Fight for $15 movement is nearly a decade old, and we’ve barely made strides. People need to be making a living wage that is tied to inflation, because nobody should be left behind by a system that has created some of the richest individuals in the world. As your Congresswoman, I will fight to make sure that you are paid your fair share so that you can live your life with dignity.

As we face the serious prospect of our home in the Mojave becoming uninhabitable within our lifetimes, we have to wrestle with existential questions about the cost of continued growth versus our ability to sustain our existing population. And if we do invest in more growth, we should be investing in the urban core of Las Vegas—the heart of the First Congressional District—where we could be growing up, not out, and putting resources into our communities that have been getting left behind for decades.

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Our unions and workers are under attack. Wages are plummeting and debt has increased in direct correlation with the drop in union density in this country. Politicians, taking orders from the corporate bosses who fund them, have chipped away at collective bargaining rights to the point where they barely exist. Every worker, no matter where they live, deserves the right to a safe, stable, good-paying job where their collective bargaining rights are respected.

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Gone are the days of pretending that racial and gender wage gaps don’t exist. We have to close the wage gap, end the pink tax, and invest in communities that have been shut out of the so-called American dream, starting with our Black, brown, immigrant, and undocumented neighbors. I will make sure that the marginalized members of our community have equitable access to federal resources, investments, and stimuli.

The Green New Deal offers a framework to provide 20 million union jobs with living wages to Americans by offering a federal job guarantee. What better way to put people back to work than by creating a sustainable future?  We can (and must) connect the economy with the climate, putting people to work to counteract the effects of climate change and helping to stabilize the job market.

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We must hold the ultra-wealthy and large corporations accountable and have them pay their fare share. By establishing an annual tax on the top 0.1% of US households and instituting taxes on Wall Street Speculation and fossil fuel companies, we can start building a sustainable future for everyone: a future that includes Jobs for All, Housing for all, Education for All, Medicare for All, and a Green New Deal. 

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