According to USA Today, Sanders’ idea was also shared by his fellow Democratic presidential candidates vowing to provide protection to 11 million undocumented immigrants residing in the U.S. However, his plan is the first to expand security to immigrants who have already been deported back to their home countries.
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Hillary Clinton has used one of her latest ads as a Democratic presidential candidate to focus on taking control over the rising expenses people are facing when buying prescription drugs and has put some blame on the health insurance industry.
The former secretary of state is competing for support in Nevada’s caucuses next February against Democratic rivals Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley.
The Clinton campaign points to her efforts on behalf of workers over the years.
As Clinton has always been in the political spotlight, there are those who find her “sudden” support of Black Lives Matter’s cause hard to swallow.
Sanders and his progressive message have created a groundswell of support from left-leaning voters, particularly the energetic young base of millennials that other campaigns, on both sides of the aisle, continually have so much trouble reaching.
Same at American Postal Workers Union and Roemer’s union, the National Nurses United.
After championing coal in 2008, Clinton now wants to protect health benefits for coal miners and their families and help to retrain them for new jobs.
Walsh pledged to do “whatever needs to be done” for the campaign, and said he was courted personally by Clinton a number of times, including conversations with former President Bill Clinton. But Clinton can count on some friendships with unions leaders, such as AFT’s Randi Weingarten and Tom Buffenbarger of the machinists.
Social Security and Medicare, two of our most important and effective government programs, are financed by payroll taxes that hit the actual middle class, as would be paid family leave legislation introduced by Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (of which Sanders is a co-sponsor). SEIU president Mary Kay Henry stated that Clinton seems more electable in a general election than Sanders, and that’s why he’s giving the endorsment to her. “We are going to win because we are going to explain what democratic socialism is”, he said. Two days after the national union’s endorsement, SEIU local 1984 in New Hampshire endorsed Sanders. But not all members support her to be the next leader at the White House, says Newsweek.
“I typically have gotten involved in the primaries when I had some sort of inspirational attachment to it”, said Columbia attorney Dick Harpootlian, an Obama backer and critic of Clinton who had hoped Biden would run. She entered the year the clear favorite to win the Democratic nomination.
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Still, Anna Greenberg, a Democratic strategist, said the highest priority for unions is electing a Democratic president, given how much is at stake on labor’s agenda.
