Quotes by Jan Schakowsky - Page 3

I've fought to close the gender and racial pay gap for a very long time. One piece of advice I like to give whenever I'm speaking on the subject: if you want equal pay, join a union! I've never seen a union contract that pays women 79 cents to a man's dollar.
Jan Schakowsky / U.s. Representative
Cents
Equal Pay
Time Women Man
Contract
Dollar
Fought
Gap
Join
Racial
Very Long Time
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Since the Affordable Care Act allows individuals to buy affordable health care coverage on their own, women no longer have to remain in a job just for the health insurance - they can feel free to start their own business or care for a child or elderly parent.
Jan Schakowsky / U.s. Representative
Affordable
Affordable Care Act
Coverage
Elderly
Health Care
Parent
Buy
Individuals
Insurance
Longer
Remain
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There is no better way to improve wages and working conditions in our country than to support the right to unionize. Throughout our history, unions have improved the lives of millions of American families, grown the middle class, and pushed our economy forward.
Jan Schakowsky / U.s. Representative
Class
Conditions
Economy
Middle
Middle Class
Millions
Support
Unions
Wages
American Families
Better Way
Forward
Grown
Improved
Throughout
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When my office asked the regional HHS office to participate in an enrollment event - something they routinely have done for previous ACA and Medicare Part D enrollment - they said no. They were prohibited from doing so - under orders from the Trump Administration.
Jan Schakowsky / U.s. Representative
Administration
Enrollment
Event
Orders
Participate
Previous
Prohibited
Regional
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There is greater income inequality in the United States than in any other industrialized country. Yes, the debt is a problem that must be dealt with. To me, however, the disappearing middle class is even worse - bad for our economy and really bad for our democracy.
Jan Schakowsky / U.s. Representative
Income
Income Inequality
Inequality
Middle Class
Dealt
Disappearing
Even Worse
Industrialized
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Higher wages for American workers are not just good for American families, they are good for our economy. I will keep fighting for a raise for hard working Americans so our families can afford housing, help their children get a quality education, and secure a good retirement.
Jan Schakowsky / U.s. Representative
American Workers
Housing
Quality Education
Retirement
Secure
Wages
Workers
Afford
American Families
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We have a choice: we can allow the growing disparity between rich and poor to continue unimpeded, or we can take action to budget responsibly and strengthen and expand the middle class. If we want this economy - and this country - to meet its full potential, the choice is simple.
Jan Schakowsky / U.s. Representative
Disparity
Full Potential
Middle Class
Allow
Budget
Choice
Expand
Responsibly
Strengthen
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While trade agreements are negotiated in secrecy, behind-closed doors, we have learned enough from leaks to know that the result of passing TPA to 'fast track' these trade agreements would affect everything from food safety to environmental protection to consumer financial protections.
Jan Schakowsky / U.s. Representative
Environmental
Doors
Environmental Protection
Leaks
Passing
Protection
Safety
Secrecy
Trade Agreements
Affect
Agreements
Consumer
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One can only presume, despite unequivocal polling to the contrary, that Republicans believe relentlessly attacking womens' abilities to make their own health care decisions is popular and will help them win elections. I believe it is at their peril that they pursue this anti-women agenda.
Jan Schakowsky / U.s. Representative
Attacking
Contrary
Health Care
Polling
Pursue
Unequivocal
Health Believe Care
Health Believe I Believe
Relentlessly
Republicans
Presume
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We understand what President Trump means when he talks about taking the country back. He does not see America as a country of people from diverse backgrounds united around values of freedom and respect. In his 'American carnage' version of our country, immigrants and refugees are a threat.
Jan Schakowsky / U.s. Representative
Respect
Backgrounds
Carnage
Diverse
Immigrants
President
Trump
Freedom Respect People
Version
President Trump
Refugees
Taking
Talks
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Instituting equal pay is especially important because families in our country increasingly rely on women's wages to make ends meet. When women bring home less money each day, it means they have less for the everyday needs of their families - groceries, rent, child care, and doctors' visits.
Jan Schakowsky / U.s. Representative
Women
Home
Care
Child Care
Country
Doctors
Each Day
Ends
Equal
Equal Pay
Everyday
Groceries
Important
Needs
Pay
Rely
Wages
Child
Less
Bring
Each
Families
Increasingly
Meet
Visits
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The 'People's Budget' rewards hard work and invests in our country. It ensures that everyone has an opportunity to get a good education, find a good job, live in a safe and secure home, put food on the table, have affordable health care, save for retirement, and maybe have a little left over.
Jan Schakowsky / U.s. Representative
Opportunity
Health
Affordable
Affordable Health Care
Good Education
Hard Work
Health Care
Left
Retirement
Rewards
Safe
Secure
Education Work Health
Education Work Good
Budget
Maybe
Save
Table
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Food service workers, home care workers, farm workers, and other low-wage workers log long hours. They come home tired after providing services and producing goods that make our country stronger. They deserve fair treatment from their employers, and they deserve a voice in collective bargaining.
Jan Schakowsky / U.s. Representative
Bargaining
Collective Bargaining
Deserve
Employers
Goods
Long Hours
Providing
Stronger
Treatment
Workers
Collective
Farm
Log
Producing
Services
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The Republican 'Work Harder for Less' budget leaves more Americans even worse off than they are today. The 'People's Budget' makes the critical investments needed to give the American people exactly what they deserve - economic security and peace of mind - and helps grow our economy from the middle out.
Jan Schakowsky / U.s. Representative
Deserve
Economic Security
Peace Of Mind
American People
Budget
Even Worse
Exactly What
Leaves
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Obamacare does much more than provide coverage to the previously uninsured - it improves the quality of coverage for all of us. Critical cancer and other health screenings are free. Women and people with disabilities or chronic conditions are no longer charged more - or priced out of the market altogether.
Jan Schakowsky / U.s. Representative
Conditions
Coverage
Altogether
Charged
Chronic
Disabilities
Improves
Uninsured
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I am a fierce advocate for the economic empowerment of all women. In the Congress, I am one of the leaders of an initiative called 'When Women Succeed, America Succeeds.' It is an economic agenda for women aimed at making sure women have equal pay for equal work, paid sick leave, and affordable child care.
Jan Schakowsky / U.s. Representative
Affordable
Child Care
Congress
Economic
Empowerment
Equal
Equal Pay
Initiative
Paid
Pay
Sick
Succeed
Work Women I Am
Advocate
All Women
Leave
Equal Work
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Investing in women at home and abroad strengthens families, uplifts our children, improves health, makes communities and countries more peaceful, and brightens our collective future. Where women have equality, security, and the opportunity to live, work, and prosper, their families and societies are better off.
Jan Schakowsky / U.s. Representative
Better Off
Investing
Peaceful
Abroad
Future Work Health
Collective
Work Future Health
Improves
Societies
Prosper
Strengthens
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Ivanka Trump's declared mission to 'empower women who work' is a welcome element in the Trump administration. As a woman with a desk in the White House and the founder of an international corporation, she is certainly in a position to improve the wages, safety, and quality of life of working women around the world.
Jan Schakowsky / U.s. Representative
Administration
Quality Of Life
Safety
Wages
Welcome
White House
Life Work Women
Corporation
Desk
Element
Empower
Founder
Mission
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From its onset, the labor movement has been at the forefront of the fight to improve working conditions and workplace safety. At the local level, knowing their union has their back gives workers the confidence and support they need to stand up and report harassment, poor working conditions, or workplace safety violations.
Jan Schakowsky / U.s. Representative
Conditions
Harassment
Labor
Labor Movement
Safety
Workers
Report
Forefront
Local Level
Stand Up
Violations
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More than 180 countries around the world have ratified CEDAW, some with reservations. While the United States signed the treaty in 1981, it is one of the few countries that have not yet ratified it. As a global leader for human rights and equality, I believe our country should adopt this resolution and ratify the CEDAW treaty.
Jan Schakowsky / U.s. Representative
Human Rights
Reservations
Resolution
Adopt
Signed
Treaty
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Memorial Day is all about celebrating the lives of the men and women who paid the ultimate sacrifice in service to our country. The United States is made great because of their heroism. Their lives are remembered, honored, and celebrated by all of us, including the friends, family, and fellow service members who knew them best.
Jan Schakowsky / U.s. Representative
Heroism
Honored
Memorial
Remembered
Sacrifice
Ultimate
Ultimate Sacrifice
Celebrated
Fellow
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As a member of the Democratic Women's Working Group and Co-Chair of the Congressional Seniors Task Force, I will keep fighting for women's rights until they are completely secured. My daughters and granddaughters and millions of women and girls nationwide deserve our tireless efforts until we become a country where there is truly equality for all.
Jan Schakowsky / U.s. Representative
Equality
Democratic
Deserve
Fighting
Force
Granddaughter
Millions
Rights
Secured
Daughters
Congressional
Efforts
Group
Member
Nationwide
Seniors
Task
Task Force
Tireless
Truly
Women And Girls
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It would be one thing if we could say the system works [in Illinois], and that individuals followed procedures and were found innocent, but in fact in all the cases it was really a fluke ... We find persistent wrongdoing on the part of law enforcement. It's really sheer luck that those convicted of these [capital] crimes were exonerated in the end.
Jan Schakowsky / U.s. Representative
Illinois
Law
Luck
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Republicans who oppose Obamacare have a responsibility to show that they can do better - not return us to the days when insurance companies alone decided who to cover for what benefits at what price. Otherwise, they should move beyond the repeal fights of the past, accept Obamacare as the law of the land, and work with us to make real improvements.
Jan Schakowsky / U.s. Representative
Insurance Companies
Republicans
Insurance
Oppose
Repeal
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