User Clip: Rep. Swalwell on Homelessness
Rep. Swalwell on Homelessness
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Commits to pushing for a debate on poverty, says that gun violence, health care costs, and environmental injustice are all forms of policy racism
American Family Act to raise child tax credit, tripling Earned Income tax credit, investing in infrastructure by moving $5 trillion away from wealthiest Americans and $5.6 trillion away from…
Pledges to take money away from military and put it into schools, making school construction a federal infrastructure priority, incentivizing small business development in economically depre…
Raising minimum wage, changing tax policy (Earned Income tax credit)
Free school lunch during summer, fixing Title I funding
Calling for independent redistricting commissions in every state
Proposed bringing student loan interest rate down to 0
Getting veterans into workforce, discussing having been at war in the Middle East far too long
Bobby Fields asking about min wage and union rights; Swalwell promises to bring national min wage to $15, to make it "easier to organize in a labor union," and not to go to McDonald's until …
Bringing farmers and ranchers into climate policy, carbon sequestering
Proposing "health care guarantee" to not go broke in getting health care
On poverty among veterans, and communities damaged by militarism/militarized police
Barber asking for a commitment to a debate on poverty and the 5 interlocking injustices, Bennet agreeing with the interlocking injustices and confirming he would ask for a poverty debate