Positions and Views of Ralph Nader
on Jobs
| Previous Candidate for U.S. President, U.S. President |
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Independent |
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53 Hillside Ave.
Winsted CT 06098 |
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| Jobs |
Positions and Views |
| Foreign Job Outsourcing |
The US should punish corporate tax escapees by closing the offshore reincorporation loophole and banning government contracts and subsidies for companies that relocate their headquarters to an offshore tax haven. The IRS should be given more power and more budgetary resources to go after corporate tax avoiders. Publicly-traded corporations should be required to make their tax returns public.
Source: Candidate Website (10/04/2008) |
| Affirmative Action |
After more than 300 years of affirmative action to benefit white males, we definitely need affirmative action for people of color and women to offset enduring historic wrongs as well as present-day inequalities. Affirmative-action programs should not be based on quotas, and race and gender should not be the predominant factor in choosing qualified applicants. A good affirmative- action program uses a variety of methods to achieve the goal of increasing diversity, including using race and gender as one of many factors in evaluating the suitability of an applicant.
Source: Candidate Website (10/04/2008) |
| Job Growth |
Since January 2001, 2.7 million jobs have been lost and more than 75% of those jobs have been high wage, high productivity manufacturing jobs. Overall 5.6% of Americans are unemployed while 10.5% of African Americans are unemployed. Unemployment among Latinos is nearly 30 per cent higher than January 20, 2001. By requiring equitable trade, investing in urgently needed local labor-intensive public works (infrastructure improvements), creating a new renewable energy efficiency policy; by fully funding education and redirecting large bureaucratic and fraudulent health expenditures toward preventive health care we can reverse this trend and create millions of new jobs.
Source: Candidate Website (10/04/2008) |
| Quality of Jobs |
America is replacing high-wage manufacturing jobs with low-wage service jobs at an alarming rate.
Source: Candidate Website (10/04/2008) |
| These are available issue topics for which there were no responses. |
| Jobs, a General Statement |
| Working Class |
| Workplace Violence Against Women |
| Independent Workers |
| Equal Pay Act |
| Paid Sick, Family and Maternity Leave |
| Family and Medical Leave Act |
| Unemployment Insurance |
| Workplace Protections |
| Mine Safety and Health |
| Government Subsidized Jobs |
| Reward companies that create domestic jobs |
| Child Labor |
| Occupational Safety and Health (OSHA) |
| Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) |
| Unemployment Insurance (UI) |
| Workers Benefits |
| Overtime Rights |
| Employment Discrimination |
| Retirees Returning To Work |