Jill Stein presidential campaign, 2016/Labor and employment
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The overview of the issue below was current as of the 2016 election.
Throughout the 2016 presidential campaign, voters named the economy and jobs as the "most important" problems facing America.[2] Job growth remained a top priority for Americans even as the unemployment rate in the U.S. returned to pre-recession levels. In October 2009, after nearly 9 million jobs were eliminated and following a 44 percent decrease in job openings during the Great Recession, the rate of unemployment reached 10 percent. Starting in October 2015 and throughout the 2016 presidential campaign season, unemployment hovered close to 5 percent.[3][4]
In 2016, the presidential candidates focused less on the unemployment rate, and more on "bringing back" jobs that have been outsourced, particularly in the manufacturing sector. Hillary Clinton called for investment in American infrastructure as a means of creating "good-paying" jobs and increasing wages.[5] Donald Trump's economic plan called for trade, tax, energy, and regulatory reform to make America the "best place in the world to get a job."[6]
Read what Jill Stein and the 2016 Green Platform said about labor and employment.
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Stein on labor and employment
- In a February 8, 2016, interview with Robert Scheer, Stein said that her campaign is the only one that supports canceling student debt. According to Stein, this would address the needs of the 43 million young people and not-so-young people locked in student debt because the jobs available are "not sufficient to keep a roof over their head, let alone also pay back their debt."[7]
- During a February 5, 2016, interview, Jill Stein said, "We call for emergency creation of 20 million living wage jobs that transition us to a green economy -- a green energy, food and transportation system -- and restoring critical infrastructure, including ecosystems."[8]
- According to Stein's 2016 campaign website, she supported jobs as a right. If elected, Stein planned to create living-wage jobs for every American who needed work, replacing unemployment offices with employment offices. She also planned to advance workers' rights to unionize and to keep a fair share of the wealth they helped create.[9]
- In a November 11, 2015, interview with Yes! Weekly, Jill Stein proposed a jobs program meant to create "a more just economy." She said, "These are jobs, which like the New Deal, they would revive the economy. In this case, it is a Green New Deal so these jobs would focus on creating 100-percent clean renewable energy by 2030, creating healthy local, sustainable food systems and creating public transportation at the same time that we meet human needs. It’s a massive jobs creation program, but it’s far more efficient than the jobs program that Obama created in 2009, which was extremely expensive because it wasn’t direct job creation. It had a lot of tax incentives built in and those can get used in a whole variety of ways. Maybe it created 1 or 2 million jobs and cost $800 billion dollars. A Green New Deal would cost less than that and create far more jobs because it creates jobs directly, provides direct incentives for those jobs that are created."[10]
- Stein said in a November 11, 2015, interview with Yes! Weekly that her New Green deal "contains living wage jobs so it contains the work that has to be done to raise the minimum wage to a living wage. That would happen with 20 million jobs. When that happens, it would pose so much pressure to jobs that aren’t paying these wages, that it would really force them to do the same.[11]
- Read what other 2016 presidential candidates have said about labor and employment.
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Footnotes
- ↑ Democracy Now, "Green Party’s Jill Stein Announces She Is Running for President," June 22, 2015
- ↑ Gallup, "Most Important Problem," accessed September 13, 2016
- ↑ Bureau of Labor Statistics, "Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey," accessed September 13, 2016
- ↑ Bureau of Labor Statistics, "The Recession of 2007–2009," February 2012
- ↑ Hillary Clinton 2016 campaign website, "Jobs and wages," accessed September 13, 2016
- ↑ Donald Trump 2016 campaign website, "ECONOMIC VISION: WINNING THE GLOBAL COMPETITION," accessed September 13, 2016
- ↑ Scheer Intelligence, "Jill Stein-Presidential Candidate," February 8, 2016
- ↑ Political People Blog, "Dr. Jill Stein on Foreign Policy, Bernie Sanders and a 'Green New Deal,'" February 5, 2016
- ↑ Jill Stein for President, "My Plan," accessed February 17, 2016
- ↑ Yes! Weekly, "Fighting for the greater good with Jill Stein," November 11, 2015
- ↑ Yes! Weekly, "Fighting for the greater good with Jill Stein," November 11, 2015
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Green Party, "The 2016 Green Party Platform on Social Justice," accessed August 24, 2016
