Green New Deal Dr Jill Stein in Burbank

	Green New Deal Dr Jill Stein in Burbank Green Party candidate offers "green New Deal" during speech in Burbank Offering what she called a "green New Deal," Green Party presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein delivered a speech at Woodbury University in Burbank on Thursday that focused on jobs, education and the economy. While President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal at the end of the Depression created public-sector jobs, Stein's plan would use incentives for small business to hire more employees and invest in green jobs. She said her proposal would be funded by eliminating tax cuts for the rich and corporations. Stein also pointed to bailouts of Wall Street and large banks as a sign that the current economic strategy is flawed. "We need to break up these big banks that are too big to fail and too big to jail," said Stein, a physician and instructor ofinternal medicine. The trickle-down economics that has been touted for decades hasn't served the country well, she added. "It ain't worked," Stein said. Speaking to an audience made up mostly of students, Stein said the country is seeing a generation of college graduates who are basically "indentured servants" because many of them are strapped with such staggering debt. She wants to forgive student loan debt and offer a tuition-free college education. "It's time to bail out the students," Stein said, adding that in the 20th century, a high school diploma was enough for most people to get good-paying jobs, but a college degree is vital in the 21th century to land <b>...</b>	From:IndependentGreens Views: 88 1 ratings
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