There are millions of millennials entering the workforce and all of them are old enough to vote in the 2016 United States presidential election. Many recent graduates will consider a candidate based on where they stand on job creation. There are many candidates to choose from and it can be difficult to track all of their ideas for job growth. What do some of the main candidates have to say about jobs in the United States?
Hillary Clinton
Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton wants to bring jobs to the United States by preventing them from getting sent overseas. [1] Clinton believes that too many factories are getting shut down in our country, while companies are getting their products from countries like China.
When it comes to an increase in minimum wage, Clinton wants to halt Congress salary increases until the minimum wage is raised. She is also a strong supporter of unions and believes that they are responsible for workers getting fair wages.
Bernie Sanders
Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders is focused on creating worker-owned cooperatives. [2] This means that he supports businesses that are owned and run by the employees that work there. He has also shown heavy support for unions and wants to further grow them.
Over the past few years he has been in support of raising the minimum wage to higher and higher levels. His most current view on minimum wage is that it should be raised to $15 an hour.
Lincoln Chafee
Democratic candidate Lincoln Chafee believes in giving potential workers the chance to build a strong foundation with the intention of helping them find a job. Chafee has pushed funding to increase national job-training programs for those who have been out of the workforce for an extended period of time. [3] He also stands by a federal minimum wage and believes that it needs to be raised.
Jeb Bush
Republican candidate Jeb Bush has shown in the past that he want to increase blue-collar jobs. He has supported a stimulus package with the purpose of creating 33,000 construction jobs. [4] Bush also has a history of supporting small farming operations with tax incentives to help keep them in business.
Bush’s stance on minimum wage is that it is fine at the state level but there shouldn’t be one at the federal level. Although he is alright with minimum wage at the state level, he does not agree with the idea of increasing it.
Chris Christie
Republican candidate Chris Christie wants to create more jobs, but more specifically jobs in the private sector. Private sector employees are the people that work for non-governmental agencies. Since 2010 he has created 75,000 private sector jobs, and this still seems to be his focus in his run for high office. [5]
When it comes to pay, Christie is against a raise in minimum wage. His solution to fixing the high number of jobs with low pay is to increase the number of higher paying jobs. When it comes to unions, he doesn’t have an issue with unionized state workers.
Donald Trump
Republican candidate Donald Trump has taken a hard stance against companies outsourcing jobs to foreign workers. [6] His plan is to lower business taxes so that companies stop trying to save money by looking for workers overseas.
When it comes to illegal immigrants working in the United States, he has made his main stances to push for a stronger U.S. border. [7] He believes this will prevent illegal immigrants from working U.S. jobs.
Jill Stein
Green party candidate Jill Stein has recently talked about her interest in creating more pink-collar jobs. [8] These are the jobs that one would find in the service industry to meet people’s needs. Although her most recent focus is service industry jobs, she also wants to create more renewable energy related jobs.
Her stance on minimum wage is that it not only needs to increase, but it also needs to be raised enough to be a living wage rather than a bare minimum. The reasoning behind such a big increase to wages is that she believes it would boost the economy by giving families more spending power.
Resources
[1] http://www.ontheissues.org/2016/Hillary_Clinton_Jobs.htm
[2] http://www.ontheissues.org/senate/bernie_sanders.htm
[3] http://www.ontheissues.org/governor/Lincoln_Chafee_Jobs.htm
[4] http://www.ontheissues.org/2016/Jeb_Bush_Jobs.htm
[5] http://www.ontheissues.org/Chris_Christie.htm
[6] http://www.ontheissues.org/2016/Donald_Trump_Jobs.htm
[7] http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/la-na-trump-arizona-rally-20150710-story.html
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