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Some of My
Priorities
are:
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Increasing Teacher Salaries
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Universal Healthcare
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Veterans' Affairs
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Bringing Back DEI
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Protecting Medicare and Medicaid
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Protecting Social Security
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Women's Reproductive Rights
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Racial/LGBTQ+ Equality and Social Justice
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Improving Infrastructure in Hurricane-Prone Areas
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Free School Breakfast and Lunches
One of my priorities when I get to Congress will be to propose increasing teacher salaries.
One way I will look to do this is to establish a minimum salary in every state. This will be determined at the very least by the cost of living, the current median salaries, and a few other factors. It will be enough for teachers to NOT have to get second jobs over the summer.
HOW WILL THIS BE PAID FOR?
It is interesting that whenever we as a country want to pay for something, we always seem to find a way. Yet, when it comes time to pay people what they deserve, ESPECIALLY TEACHERS, we seem to just "run out of ideas."
Enough of kicking this can down the road.
When annual budgets come in, teacher salaries need to be at the TOP of the list. Except for emergency issues, all the improvements and enhancements in the world make NO difference if you don't have teachers.
I know the math that will need to be done to figure all this out as well, and that will depend on each state and the number of teachers.
I know this will not be easy, but the bottom line is that it needs to happen. And I will work tirelessly to make sure it does.
RETURNING
SOCIAL SECURITY
I will propose returning social security in the full amounts to their rightful owners.
HOW: First, please visit https://www.ssa.gov to get the information on what you have paid into your social security. Rather than in monthly installments as what happens now, returns will happen by way of check or one-time direct deposit for the FULL amount.
From this point forward, the option will still exist to pay into social security, but this will no longer be mandatory to come out of payroll checks.