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| The AFL-CIO sent questionnaires to every viable major-party candidate running for president in 2008. These questionnaires ask, in detail, for policy proposals to address the key issues facing working families. The following candidates have provided questionnaires: These candidates did not respond: The AFL-CIO asked each candidate the following questions: - Why should working people support you for president?
- How will you work to create good jobs and lift living standards in the United States and around the world?
- What are your ideas for solving the U.S. health care crisis and guaranteeing affordable, quality health care to all?
- Do you believe corporate interests have too much power today and, if so, how will you work to restore workers’ rights, re-balance power between corporations and working families and ensure that our nation’s prosperity is shared?
- What role do you believe unions play in our economy and society, and what will you do to restore the freedom of all working people to join together in unions to bargain for a better life? Do you support the Employee Free Choice Act that passed the U.S. House of Representatives on March 1 and is being considered in the U.S. Senate, and will you work to make it law?
- How will you approach helping low-income individuals and families secure living wage jobs, health care, housing and other basic needs to escape the trap of poverty?
- What solutions do you propose to help workers handle their work and family responsibilities?
- What will you do to revitalize our manufacturing sector, stop the export of our best jobs and reform our trade policy so it supports good jobs at home and contributes to a healthy environment and equitable development here and abroad?
- What are your ideas to develop a reasonable immigration system that protects the rights of all workers and provides a path to citizenship for hard-working, tax-paying immigrants who come to our nation seeking a better life?
- What will you do to make America a leader again in respecting human rights and civil rights at home and around the world?
- What is your position on the U.S. involvement in Iraq?
- Will you change our nation’s tax and budget priorities and, if so, how?
- What do you propose to do to strengthen Social Security and private pensions to ensure that America’s workers can retire with a secure income (defined as 70 percent of pre-retirement income)?
- What do you believe are the opportunities and challenges facing public education, and how would your administration deal with each? What policies would you support to help close the achievement gap between advantaged and disadvantaged students, including making college more accessible and affordable?
- How do you propose to move our nation toward energy sufficiency, stop global warming and protect our environment?
- What would you do to curb the outsourcing of public-service jobs to the private sector, which can result in reducing the pay and benefits of workers who perform such services?
- What would you do to improve job safety and health protections for workers? What is your view on the appropriate balance between mandatory standards/enforcement vs. voluntary approaches? How would you address the issue of ergonomic hazards, which are responsible for one-third of all workplace injuries?
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15.8 percent of people in the United States don't have health insurance.
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