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We're meeting Americans across the country who are having to work a second or third job just to make ends meet. It's clear that we have an economy that works too well for too few and not at all for too many. Let's finally achieve a minimum wage that is a living wage for everyone.
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"They've lost the ability to organize, bargain ... and you're seeing a teacher shortage in Iowa. People working a second or third job." @BetoORourke on #Hardball.
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"We've got to show up first or nothing else is possible." @BetoORourke on how Democrats can win in 2020.
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"It will not happen through walls, it will not happen with any of Donald Trump's scare tactics and racism and his paranoia about people who come from other places. It's got to be a realistic program." @BetoORourke on immigration reform.
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"We've got to show up first or nothing else is possible." @BetoORourke on how Democrats can win in 2020. #Hardball
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.@BetoORourke and I passed the Honor Our Commitment Act to make sure veterans were able to access the mental health care they desperately needed. The VA needs to step up and make sure veterans know they can get these services.
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TONIGHT ON @HARDBALL: 2020 Presidential candidate, @BetoORourke joins @HardballChris for a live interview. Watch “Hardball with Chris Matthews,” tonight at 7pm ET pm @MSNBC.
Let's strengthen our unions, protect collective bargaining, and guarantee that one job is enough by paying every working American a true living wage. We stand with organized labor in Iowa and across the country.
And as president, I will only nominate judges who respect, affirm, and defend Brown v. Board. Andrew Oldham doesn't get nominated. Neither does Wendy Vitter. If you don't believe in civil rights, in equity, in opportunity, you don't belong in a position of public trust.
We will also decriminalize truancy. States like Texas have taken the first step by repealing laws that prosecute children for truancy, but the fines their parents face still loom large in a system that disproportionately targets black and brown students. I will take this on.
It continues by finally achieving universal pre-k for every three and four-year-old, securing affordable childcare, signing into law paid family leave, and ensuring our country's minimum wage is a living wage so no parent has to work a second or third job to make ends meet.
But I am committed to meeting this challenge with everything we've got. It starts by increasing public school funding for low-income and underserved communities, guaranteeing the equitable distribution of resources, and ensuring teachers reflect the diversity of this country.
The work continues when we see shameful race-based disparities in HS graduation rates, in who can access higher education or skills training, and in who earns a degree. Happening as we fail to invest equitable resources in education and fail to make higher education affordable.
The work continues when in that same kindergarten classroom, children of color are five times more likely to be disciplined, suspended, or expelled as a white child -- impacting their opportunity and potential. A school to prison pipeline in full effect at five years old.
The work continues when we see an unconscionable achievement gap in our classrooms that is already in full force on the very first day of kindergarten -- where black children are already 10 months behind in math and 12 months behind in reading compared to their white classmates.
Brown v. Board was decided 65 years ago but our fight for equality is not over. The work to ensure we have equity and full opportunity in our classrooms, our schools, and our education system must continue.
Our thanks to the advocates, activists, and LGBTQ champions across the country who lead the way each day, kept the march for justice going year after year, and ultimately passed the Equality Act in the House today. Together, we will secure full civil rights for LGBTQ Americans.