Issue Position: Economy & Jobs

Issue Position

As an advisor to large and small businesses for the last ten years, Nanette understands the need to balance business interests and jobs for our communities. We need to find ways to incentive clean green businesses to our district that will bring long-term jobs that do not put workers' health and our communities at risk.

A stronger middle class means a stronger economy. We need to create robust job training programs, support small businesses and invest in growing technologies like clean energy to ensure our economy is growing and thriving.

We also need a fair economy. No one who works full-time -- often at more than one job -- should struggle to put food on the table. Right now the federal minimum wage is $7.25 per hour. A full-time minimum wage employee earns $15,080 annually. In 2012, the poverty threshold for a single person was $11,945 or $22,283 for a family of four. We need to fix that with a higher minimum wage.

We'll also make America's families stronger by demanding that hardworking women get paid the same as men when they do the same job.

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