Showing posts with label Cory Booker. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cory Booker. Show all posts

Monday, April 23, 2018

Business Insider — Bernie Sanders is about to roll out a plan to guarantee every single American a job

  • Sen. Bernie Sanders will introduce a plan to guarantee every American a job paying $15 an hour, according to a new report.
  • The plan comes after two other Democratic senators, Cory Booker and Kirsten Gillibrand, also backed job guarantee proposals.
  • Advocates for the plan say it will fight inequality and dampen recession, while opponents say it is an inefficient use of government resources.

Woo hoo.

Thank Stephanie Kelton, especially, and the MMT economists!

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Bernie Sanders is about to roll out a plan to guarantee every single American a job
Bob Bryan

Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Democrats Follow Bernie Sanders' Lead on Single-Payer — Aaron Mate interviews Adam Gaffney

 Well, what Clinton said will never, ever happen is now looking more and more possible. A number of prominent Democrats are lining up behind it, Sanders' bill for single-payer. Last week, Senators Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris jumped on board. Now, Senators Cory Booker of New Jersey, Jeff Merkley of Oregon, and Kirsten Gillibrand of New York are signing on as well. Bernie Sanders is set to unveil his Medicare for All Bill on Wednesday. Adam Gaffney is an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a member of Physicians for a National Health Program....
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Democrats Follow Bernie Sanders' Lead on Single-Payer
Aaron Mate interviews Adam Gaffney, Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School, a pulmonary and critical care physician at the Cambridge Health Alliance,and secretary and  member of the board of directors of the single-payer advocacy organization Physicians for a National Health Program