Elizabeth Warren (MA)
Democrat for the Senate Committee on Health, and Labor
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elizabeth WARREN'S VIEWS ON MINIMUM WAGE
"If we started in 1960 and we said that as productivity goes up, that is as workers are producing more, then the minimum wage is going to go up the same. And if that were the case then the minimum wage today would be about $22 an hour…" -Elizabeth Warren
Since at that level wages would clearly be above marginal product of the workers, what this argument of Warren’s tells us is that the growth productivity among the lowest skilled workers has clearly lagged average productivity growth. If the wage that average productivity growth implied was something like $10 then we might wonder if whether the low growth in wages among the low-skilled was that their productivity gains were being taken by businesses in the form of labor market power. But $22 is simply to high to be credible and so this suggests that productivity growth among low-wage workers lagged average productivity, in which case Warren’s comparison tells us nothing useful about what the minimum wage should be.
ELIZABETH WARREN'S VIEWS ON EDUCATION
We need to go back to seeing education as an investment in our future. We need to support early childhood education, to give kids a fair shot at success from their earliest days. Good public schools, good community colleges, good public universities, and good technical training can give us a workforce better than any in the world.
We have an obligation to improve our schools and prepare our children for all of the challenges - and opportunities - that lie ahead, to support, encourage and reward our educators, and to provide every child with an education that is second to none.
ELIZABETH WARREN'S VIEWS ON JOBS & OUR ECONOMY
In the longer term, we need to invest in our future. We need to work together to invest in the things that create the conditions for our people to prosper and our economy to grow. We need:
- A level playing field
- Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency
- Education
- Roads, Water, and Other Infrastructure
- Research
- Workers’ rights
- Free and Fair Trade
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Elizabeth Warren as a law school proffesor
Elizabeth's love for dogs
Elizabeth Warrens views on Health Care
She believes in:
- Ending the practice of insurance companies denying people with preexisting conditions
- Allowing young people to stay on their parents' insurance until age 26
- Providing tax breaks for small businesses who provide health care
- Preventing insurance discrimination against women