1. Economy (Jobs, Workers, and Taxes)
By: Sara Santos
Stephanie Semo
Destiny Taveras
Rossy Toribio
Jaylanee Torres

2. Hillary Clinton
Workers:
Plans to raise the minimum wage.
Protects workers from exploitation.
Example: Wage theft & Employer Misclassification.
Will fight for equal pay among women and men.
Will protect retirement benefits.

3. Hillary Clinton (con’t)
Jobs:
Committed to creating jobs in the future.
Plans to cancel tax breaks for companies that works abroad.
Wants to provide tax relief and access to capital so small businesses can grow, hire, and prosper.
Opposes trade deals that do not create good-paying jobs and raising pay.

4. Hillary Clinton (con’t)
Taxes:
Hillary will make sure that the wealthiest Americans do not pay a lower tax rate than the working middle-class families.
She will cut taxes for small businesses so that they can grow.
Provide tax relief to those who pay out of pocket health care costs and those who take care of their ill or elderly family member.

5. Jill Stein ( Green Party Candidate)
Jobs
Full Employment Program
The Jobs provided through this program will help our environment
Examples: cleaning manufacturing, public transportation, Farming etc.
Workers
Workers rights
Right to organize a union or protest without getting fired or arrested
Right to Fair trade policy

6. Jill Stein (Con’t) Taxes Higher taxes for the richest Americans,
Supports rewriting the entire tax code
Example: Tax cuts for working families, the poor and middle class
Higher taxes for the richest Americans,
Example: Rich should pay 55%- 60% taxes, not 15% or 33%
Increase Inheritance taxes, which is taxing people who inherits property or money= calls it Aristocracy Taxes

7. Donald Trump Taxes: Decrease taxes across the board
Make sure the rich pay their fair share.
Remove special interest loopholes. He will do this by making our business tax rate more competitive to keep jobs, create jobs, and create new opportunities.
Decrease the cost of childcare by allowing families to remove the average cost of childcare from their taxes, including stay-at-home parents.

8. Donald Trump (con’t) Jobs:
Create a strong economy that can create 25 million new jobs over the next decade.
Increasing the GDP growth by 1.5 percent which would result in creating 18 million jobs.
He wants to reform policies with a new modern regulatory framework, a pro-growth tax plan, an American-first trade policy, an unleashed American energy plan, and the “penny plan.”

9. Donald Trump (con’t) Workers:
Before he opposed increasing minimum wage.
Now he wants to increase minimum wage, but in terms of numbers he would rather leave it to the states.

10. Gary Johnson -Wants to reduce taxation and regulation.
-Does not believe government can create jobs.
-Wants to end income tax and create fairtax.
-Fairtax would create tens of millions of jobs in the United States and will tax the wealthy more than the poor.

11. Gary Johnson (con’t)
-Reward good workers and fire bad workers without collection intervention.
- He wants to replace the federal income with national sales tax, payroll and corporate taxes.