Candidate,Policy Group,Policy,Link,Candidate Title,From,Party,Status,Photo,Bio
Bernie Sanders,Gun control,"Sanders supports expanding background checks to close the “gun show loophole,” prohibiting the sale and distribution of assault weapons, and ban high-capacity magazines. He wants to implement a gun buyback program to get assault weapons off the streets. He has faced criticism for a 1993 vote against legislation that would establish a nationwide background check and for proposals in 2003 and 2005 to protect gun manufacturers from lawsuits if their products are used to commit crimes.  In 1990, he received support from the National Rifle Association (NRA), but in recent years he has spoken against the association and vowed to “take on” the organization. 
",https://berniesanders.com/issues/gun-safety/,Senator,Vermont,Independent,In the race,https://storage.googleapis.com/cdn.thenevadaindependent.com/2019/03/2b6b1cd7-bernie-sanders.jpg,"Bernie Sanders was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1941. After graduating from the University of Chicago, Sanders moved to Vermont, where he has been a senator since 2007. He was a member of the House of Representatives from 1991 to 2007. He also was a congressman and the mayor of Burlington, Vermont. He became interested in politics at a young age because of the history of his family, who were Jewish immigrants from Europe.  
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Bernie Sanders,Health care system,"Sanders supports Medicare for all, a government health insurance plan that would provide coverage to Americans and replace plans offered by private insurers. He proposes a variety of options for paying for it, including a 4 percent income-based premium paid by employees, a 7.5 percent income-based premium paid by employers, higher federal income tax rates for the wealthy and a higher estate tax. He wants to allow Medicare to negotiate with drug companies to lower prescription drug prices. He supports allowing patients, pharmaceutical companies and wholesalers to buy medication from other countries. 

",https://berniesanders.com/issues/medicare-for-all/,Senator,Vermont,Independent,In the race,https://storage.googleapis.com/cdn.thenevadaindependent.com/2019/03/2b6b1cd7-bernie-sanders.jpg,"Bernie Sanders was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1941. After graduating from the University of Chicago, Sanders moved to Vermont, where he has been a senator since 2007. He was a member of the House of Representatives from 1991 to 2007. He also was a congressman and the mayor of Burlington, Vermont. He became interested in politics at a young age because of the history of his family, who were Jewish immigrants from Europe.  
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Bernie Sanders,Immigration,"Sanders wants to provide a path to citizenship for the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the U.S. within five years. He wants to reinstate and expand the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Legal Residents (DAPA) program, which was created by President Barack Obama to protect undocumented parents whose children are U.S. citizens or legal permanent residents from deportation, but did not go into effect because of a lawsuit filed by the State of Texas. It was formally rescinded by the Trump administration in 2017. He wants to break up the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agencies and redistribute their functions to other agencies. He supports reuniting immigrant families who have been separated. He seeks to dismantle “cruel and inhumane” detention and deportation programs. ",https://berniesanders.com/issues/welcoming-and-safe-america-all/,Senator,Vermont,Independent,In the race,https://storage.googleapis.com/cdn.thenevadaindependent.com/2019/03/2b6b1cd7-bernie-sanders.jpg,"Bernie Sanders was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1941. After graduating from the University of Chicago, Sanders moved to Vermont, where he has been a senator since 2007. He was a member of the House of Representatives from 1991 to 2007. He also was a congressman and the mayor of Burlington, Vermont. He became interested in politics at a young age because of the history of his family, who were Jewish immigrants from Europe.  
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Bernie Sanders,Education,"Sanders seeks to make public colleges, universities and vocational colleges free by providing $48 billion per year through the College for All Act. Wants to invest $1.3 billion per year to private, non-profit historically black colleges and universities as well as minority-serving institutions to defray or eliminate tuition and fees. Aims to cancel all existing student debt and cap student loan interest rates at 1.88 percent. ",https://berniesanders.com/issues/free-college-cancel-debt/,Senator,Vermont,Independent,In the race,https://storage.googleapis.com/cdn.thenevadaindependent.com/2019/03/2b6b1cd7-bernie-sanders.jpg,"Bernie Sanders was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1941. After graduating from the University of Chicago, Sanders moved to Vermont, where he has been a senator since 2007. He was a member of the House of Representatives from 1991 to 2007. He also was a congressman and the mayor of Burlington, Vermont. He became interested in politics at a young age because of the history of his family, who were Jewish immigrants from Europe.  
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Bernie Sanders,Economy,"Sanders wants to reverse corporate tax breaks enacted by President Donald Trump and restore the corporate tax rate to 35 percent. He wants to impose higher corporate tax rates on companies with a large pay gap between executives and workers. He has proposed a variety of possible taxes to pay for his Medicare for All plan, including a 4 percent income-based premium paid by employees, a 7.5 percent income-based premium paid by employers, higher federal income tax rates for the wealthy and a higher estate tax. He proposes a “Wall Street speculation tax” that would tax stock trades at 0.5 percent and bond trades at 0.1 percent and is estimated to raise $2.4 trillion over 10 years. He wants to ban “right to work” laws that allow workers not to pay union dues if their workplace has union representation. He aims to double union membership in his first term. He is in favor of increasing federal minimum wage to $15 an hour.

",https://berniesanders.com/issues/,Senator,Vermont,Independent,In the race,https://storage.googleapis.com/cdn.thenevadaindependent.com/2019/03/2b6b1cd7-bernie-sanders.jpg,"Bernie Sanders was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1941. After graduating from the University of Chicago, Sanders moved to Vermont, where he has been a senator since 2007. He was a member of the House of Representatives from 1991 to 2007. He also was a congressman and the mayor of Burlington, Vermont. He became interested in politics at a young age because of the history of his family, who were Jewish immigrants from Europe.  
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Bernie Sanders,Climate change,"Sanders is in favor of the country re-joining the Paris Agreement, an international pact to battle climate change and reduce carbon emissions. He wants to invest $16.3 trillion to enact a Green New Deal, a government stimulus that promotes the use of clean energy to improve the environment and spur the creation of an estimated 20 million jobs. He wants to end subsidies for fossil fuel companies. He wants to achieve 100 percent renewable energy in transportation and electricity sectors by 2030, and complete decarbonization by 2050. He wants to invest hundreds of billions of dollars in infrastructure for vulnerable communities affected by the effects of climate change, such as fires or rising sea levels. ",https://berniesanders.com/en/issues/green-new-deal/,Senator,Vermont,Independent,In the race,https://storage.googleapis.com/cdn.thenevadaindependent.com/2019/03/2b6b1cd7-bernie-sanders.jpg,"Bernie Sanders was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1941. After graduating from the University of Chicago, Sanders moved to Vermont, where he has been a senator since 2007. He was a member of the House of Representatives from 1991 to 2007. He also was a congressman and the mayor of Burlington, Vermont. He became interested in politics at a young age because of the history of his family, who were Jewish immigrants from Europe.  
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Donald Trump,Immigration,"Trump’s administration canceled the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program for people brought to the country illegally as children. He eliminated the embattled Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Legal Residents (DAPA) before it began; the program was created by Obama to defer deportation for undocumented parents whose children are US citizens or legal permanent residents. His administration initially decided to put an end to the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program for numerous countries, saying that underlying conditions had improved and people could safely return home, but recently extended protections for some countries. He has directed funding to build a wall on the southern border to curb illegal immigration. His administration has made it more difficult to seek asylum, including by requiring asylum-seekers remain in Mexico while their claims are processed and putting more asylum-seekers in detention centers as they wait — a process that led to immigrant parents and children being separated. He has reduced the number of refugees allowed in the U.S. from 110,000 during the last year of the Obama administration, to 18,000 per year. ",https://www.promiseskept.com/achievement/overview/immigration/#,President,New York,Republican,In the race,https://storage.googleapis.com/cdn.thenevadaindependent.com/2019/03/0d7a7e01-donald-trump.jpg,"Trump was born in Queens, New York in 1946. He graduated from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in economic studies. Before becoming president, he was an entrepreneur and the owner of several hotels, casinos and golf courses. He was also the star of the reality TV show ""The Apprentice.”. 

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Donald Trump,Gun control,"Trump told lawmakers at a televised White House meeting in 2018 that “I want you to come up with a strong bill — and really strong on background checks” and also voiced support for raising the age to buy a gun to 21. No such legislation has passed yet. He banned ""bump stocks,"" which are devices that transform semiautomatic rifles in the automatic weapons and were used in the shooting on October 1 in Las Vegas. In 2000, he wrote in a book that he supported a ban on assault weapons, but the White House said in 2018 that he opposed such a ban during the 2016 campaign and remains against it. 
",https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/timeline-trumps-record-gun-control-reform/story?id=64783662,President,New York,Republican,In the race,https://storage.googleapis.com/cdn.thenevadaindependent.com/2019/03/0d7a7e01-donald-trump.jpg,"Trump was born in Queens, New York in 1946. He graduated from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in economic studies. Before becoming president, he was an entrepreneur and the owner of several hotels, casinos and golf courses. He was also the star of the reality TV show ""The Apprentice.”. 

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Donald Trump,Climate change,"Trump ended U.S. participation in the Paris Agreement, an international pact to battle climate change and reduce carbon emissions. Trump also annulled the Obama-era Clean Energy Plan that would require states to cut carbon emissions levels by 30 percent by 2030. The administration replaced it with an “Affordable Clean Energy” rule, which takes a much narrower and limited approach to reducing emissions. The Trump administration has largely continued the federal government’s estimated $20 billion a year in direct and indirect subsidies to fossil fuel production. ",https://www.promiseskept.com/achievement/overview/energy-and-environment/,President,New York,Republican,In the race,https://storage.googleapis.com/cdn.thenevadaindependent.com/2019/03/0d7a7e01-donald-trump.jpg,"Trump was born in Queens, New York in 1946. He graduated from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in economic studies. Before becoming president, he was an entrepreneur and the owner of several hotels, casinos and golf courses. He was also the star of the reality TV show ""The Apprentice.”. 

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Donald Trump,Economy,"Trump in 2017 signed the Republican-backed Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the most extensive tax overhaul since 1986. The law permanently reduced the tax rate for companies from 35 to 21 percent, and it also temporarily reduced some personal tax rates, expanded the child tax credit, and eliminated the penalties for those who do not buy health insurance coverage, among others. Trump and Republicans have embraced tax cuts on the grounds that they will boost the country’s economy, but critics say they will increase the deficit. The gross domestic product (GDP) increased by 2.3 percent in calendar year 2019, but fell short of the 3 percent promised by the White House and Trump’s predictions of 5 percent growth in the past. The unemployment rate fell to 3.5 percent in December 2019, the lowest levels in 50 years. As of February 2020, the national debt exceeded $23 trillion dollars, the largest amount ever owed by the federal government. The national debt accumulated in Trump’s first three years in office is about $3.1 trillion, which is less than President Barack Obama added during a similar period but more than George W. Bush and Bill Clinton accumulated. His administration filed a brief in favor of “right to work” provisions the case Janus vs. AFSCME. The Supreme Court ruled on Trump’s side, saying that public employees can opt out of paying union dues.
",https://www.promiseskept.com/achievement/overview/economy-and-jobs/,President,New York,Republican,In the race,https://storage.googleapis.com/cdn.thenevadaindependent.com/2019/03/0d7a7e01-donald-trump.jpg,"Trump was born in Queens, New York in 1946. He graduated from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in economic studies. Before becoming president, he was an entrepreneur and the owner of several hotels, casinos and golf courses. He was also the star of the reality TV show ""The Apprentice.”. 

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Donald Trump,Education,"A Trump campaign economic adviser said in 2016 that the candidate was “unequivocally” against tuition-free or debt-free college systems. Trump has criticized the high cost of college education as a candidate and while in office, but primarily moved to encourage more enrollment in community colleges and vocational schools. Trump signed a budget bill that included a provision allowing students to use Pell grants at any time of the year, as opposed to just during school semesters, but the administration has primarily worked to undo Obama-era regulations providing debt relief for students and cutting off federal aid for career college programs that graduate students with high levels of debt compared to their incomes. The administration has not sought to increase the size of the federal Pell grant. 
The Trump administration included a handful of changes on student debt and tax reporting in the 2017 federal tax overhaul, and has proposed a number of changes to the current loan system including eliminating subsidized student loans and consolidating most repayment plans into a single, income-drive repayment plan.

",https://www.promiseskept.com/achievement/overview/education/,President,New York,Republican,In the race,https://storage.googleapis.com/cdn.thenevadaindependent.com/2019/03/0d7a7e01-donald-trump.jpg,"Trump was born in Queens, New York in 1946. He graduated from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in economic studies. Before becoming president, he was an entrepreneur and the owner of several hotels, casinos and golf courses. He was also the star of the reality TV show ""The Apprentice.”. 

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Donald Trump,Health care system,"Trump criticized Medicare for all proposals in his 2020 State of the Union address as an idea that would “impose a socialist takeover of our health care system, wiping out the private health insurance plans of 180 million Americans.” He also argued it would “bankrupt” the country and lure people to come to the country illegally. Since his presidential campaign in 2016, he promised to repeal and replace the current Affordable Care Act (ACA, popularly known as Obamacare). Although he has not carried out a full repeal, he has taken steps to weaken it, including reducing marketing budgets and shortening the sign-up period for buying coverage on Obamacare exchanges. On the first day of his presidency, he issued an executive order to allow government agencies to delay implementation of any Obamacare provision that costs money. He signed a law that canceled the individual mandate, which imposed a tax penalty on those who did not buy health insurance. In his 2020 State of the Union speech, he asked for a bill that would dramatically lower drug prices, but the White House has threatened to veto a measure that passed the House and would allow Medicare to negotiate prices on up to 250 drugs, saying it amounted to “price controls.”
",https://www.promiseskept.com/achievement/overview/healthcare/,President,New York,Republican,In the race,https://storage.googleapis.com/cdn.thenevadaindependent.com/2019/03/0d7a7e01-donald-trump.jpg,"Trump was born in Queens, New York in 1946. He graduated from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in economic studies. Before becoming president, he was an entrepreneur and the owner of several hotels, casinos and golf courses. He was also the star of the reality TV show ""The Apprentice.”. 

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Tulsi Gabbard,Education,"Gabbard supports College for All, a proposal Bernie Sanders introduced in 2017 that would make public colleges and universities free for families with annual incomes of up to $125,000 and community college free for all. She also supports the HELP for Parents and Students bill, which would give tax credits to companies that help employees pay their student debt, and supported legislation in 2015 making it easier to discharge private student loan debt in bankruptcy.",https://www.tulsi2020.com/record/invest-public-education-our-teachers,Congresswoman,Hawaii,Democrat,In the race,https://storage.googleapis.com/cdn.thenevadaindependent.com/2019/03/40fa67cd-tulsi-gabbard.jpg,"Tulsi Gabbard was born in 1981 on the island of Tutuila in American Samoa. In 2002, at the age of 21, she was elected to the Hawaii state Legislature. In 2004, she was the first state legislator to voluntarily cede her position to serve a tour of duty with the Army National Guard in Iraq and Kuwait. She was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2012, and was the first Samoan-American in that position and the first Hindu member of Congress. "
Tulsi Gabbard,Climate change,"Gabbard said in 2017 that Trump's decision to pull the U.S. out of the Paris Agreement, an international pact to battle climate change and reduce carbon emissions, was ""shortsighted and irresponsible."" She proposes to eliminate subsidies for fossil fuel companies and introduced the OFF Fossil Fuels Act, which seeks to move the U.S. to 100 percent clean and renewable energy by 2035 and “transition workers to jobs in the renewable energy sector by 2035.” She supports the “carbon neutrality goals” of the Green New Deal but does not support its provisions to keep nuclear power as an option until there is a permanent solution for nuclear waste disposal.
",https://www.tulsi2020.com/record/protect-our-planet-clean-energy-create-jobs,Congresswoman,Hawaii,Democrat,In the race,https://storage.googleapis.com/cdn.thenevadaindependent.com/2019/03/40fa67cd-tulsi-gabbard.jpg,"Tulsi Gabbard was born in 1981 on the island of Tutuila in American Samoa. In 2002, at the age of 21, she was elected to the Hawaii state Legislature. In 2004, she was the first state legislator to voluntarily cede her position to serve a tour of duty with the Army National Guard in Iraq and Kuwait. She was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2012, and was the first Samoan-American in that position and the first Hindu member of Congress. "
Tulsi Gabbard,Economy," She voted against the Republican-backed Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in 2017, saying that “this bill isn’t about real tax reform — it’s a giveaway to corporations and special interests on the backs of people who are already struggling just to make ends meet.” She wants to close “tax loopholes for special interests and U.S. companies that avoid taxes by moving operations overseas.” Gabbard supports increasing the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2024. 
",https://www.tulsi2020.com/record/hold-wall-street-accountable,Congresswoman,Hawaii,Democrat,In the race,https://storage.googleapis.com/cdn.thenevadaindependent.com/2019/03/40fa67cd-tulsi-gabbard.jpg,"Tulsi Gabbard was born in 1981 on the island of Tutuila in American Samoa. In 2002, at the age of 21, she was elected to the Hawaii state Legislature. In 2004, she was the first state legislator to voluntarily cede her position to serve a tour of duty with the Army National Guard in Iraq and Kuwait. She was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2012, and was the first Samoan-American in that position and the first Hindu member of Congress. "
Tulsi Gabbard,Immigration,"Gabbard supports codifying the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program into law, and creating a pathway to citizenship for those brought to the country illegally as children. She says she wants secure borders and has been critical of Democratic candidates who she says advocate for “open borders.” She proposes allocating more funds to process asylum applications. Her campaign told The Washington Post that she would support making E-Verify mandatory for private employers if the system is improved. She supports restructuring or redistributing the duties of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency, but does not support abolishing it. In 2017, she supported a bill that would eliminate the per-country limits on employment-based visas.",https://www.tulsi2020.com/record/reform-our-broken-immigration-system,Congresswoman,Hawaii,Democrat,In the race,https://storage.googleapis.com/cdn.thenevadaindependent.com/2019/03/40fa67cd-tulsi-gabbard.jpg,"Tulsi Gabbard was born in 1981 on the island of Tutuila in American Samoa. In 2002, at the age of 21, she was elected to the Hawaii state Legislature. In 2004, she was the first state legislator to voluntarily cede her position to serve a tour of duty with the Army National Guard in Iraq and Kuwait. She was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2012, and was the first Samoan-American in that position and the first Hindu member of Congress. "
Tulsi Gabbard,Gun control,Gabbard supports “comprehensive pre-purchase background checks” and closing the “gun show loophole.” She is in favor of a federal ban on “military-style assault weapons” and high-capacity magazines and co-sponsored the 2018 Assault Weapons Ban bill.,https://www.tulsi2020.com/record/second-amendment-rights-gun-safety,Congresswoman,Hawaii,Democrat,In the race,https://storage.googleapis.com/cdn.thenevadaindependent.com/2019/03/40fa67cd-tulsi-gabbard.jpg,"Tulsi Gabbard was born in 1981 on the island of Tutuila in American Samoa. In 2002, at the age of 21, she was elected to the Hawaii state Legislature. In 2004, she was the first state legislator to voluntarily cede her position to serve a tour of duty with the Army National Guard in Iraq and Kuwait. She was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2012, and was the first Samoan-American in that position and the first Hindu member of Congress. "
Tulsi Gabbard,Health care system,"Gabbard supports Medicare for all — a government health insurance plan that would provide coverage to Americans — but also wants to maintain the option of getting coverage by private companies if consumers prefer it. She wants to curb the price of prescription drugs by allowing Medicare to negotiate with pharmaceutical companies and ensuring transparency in pricing practices.
",https://www.tulsi2020.com/record/healthcare-all,Congresswoman,Hawaii,Democrat,In the race,https://storage.googleapis.com/cdn.thenevadaindependent.com/2019/03/40fa67cd-tulsi-gabbard.jpg,"Tulsi Gabbard was born in 1981 on the island of Tutuila in American Samoa. In 2002, at the age of 21, she was elected to the Hawaii state Legislature. In 2004, she was the first state legislator to voluntarily cede her position to serve a tour of duty with the Army National Guard in Iraq and Kuwait. She was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2012, and was the first Samoan-American in that position and the first Hindu member of Congress. "
Elizabeth Warren,Health care system,"Warren wants to implement Medicare for all, a plan operated by the government that would provide coverage for Americans and eliminate private insurers, without having to raise taxes for the middle class. She proposes that employers pay 98 percent of what they would pay for private insurance to the government as a Medicare contribution. She wants to reduce the cost of prescription medications by allowing Medicare to negotiate prices with pharmaceutical companies and have the government manufacture when there is a shortage or prices are too high. ",https://elizabethwarren.com/plans/health-care,Senator,Massachusetts,Democrat,In the race,https://storage.googleapis.com/cdn.thenevadaindependent.com/2019/03/ac57d1ba-elizabeth-warren.jpg,"Elizabeth Warren was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in 1949. Before obtaining her law degree, she was a teacher focusing on children with disabilities. She also served as a lawyer and a law professor at several universities, including Harvard. She was elected to the Senate in 2012. "
Elizabeth Warren,Immigration,"Warren wants to immediately restore protections for beneficiaries of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and expand eligibility for the program. She supports legislation that will provide a path to citizenship for the estimated 11 million undocumented people living in the U.S. She proposes creating an Office of New Americans “to make it easier for newcomers to integrate into their communities.” She wants to separate law enforcement and immigration enforcement functions, including by ending the 287(g) program in which local police collaborate with immigration authorities. She wants to “reshape” Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), including by ensuring that immigration enforcement includes the same due process standards as regular law enforcement. She seeks to establish a system of immigration courts that is independent from the Department of Justice of the United States. ",https://elizabethwarren.com/plans/immigration,Senator,Massachusetts,Democrat,In the race,https://storage.googleapis.com/cdn.thenevadaindependent.com/2019/03/ac57d1ba-elizabeth-warren.jpg,"Elizabeth Warren was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in 1949. Before obtaining her law degree, she was a teacher focusing on children with disabilities. She also served as a lawyer and a law professor at several universities, including Harvard. She was elected to the Senate in 2012. "
Elizabeth Warren,Education,"Warren wants to eliminate tuition and fees at every public two- or four-year college and university. She wants to invest $100 billion over 10 years into Pell Grants, and expand eligibility for the program. She proposes cancelling at least some of the debt for 95 percent of people who have student loans by forgiving $50,000 in student loans for those with a household income up to $100,000. She wants to create a $50 billion fund for historically black and minority-serving institutions.",https://elizabethwarren.com/plans/affordable-higher-education,Senator,Massachusetts,Democrat,In the race,https://storage.googleapis.com/cdn.thenevadaindependent.com/2019/03/ac57d1ba-elizabeth-warren.jpg,"Elizabeth Warren was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in 1949. Before obtaining her law degree, she was a teacher focusing on children with disabilities. She also served as a lawyer and a law professor at several universities, including Harvard. She was elected to the Senate in 2012. "
Elizabeth Warren,Economy,"Warren wants to repeal the Republican-backed Tax Cuts and Jobs Act for the wealthy, saying it “delivers massive tax cuts to millionaires and giant corporations and kicks working families to the curb.” She wants to create a “real corporate profits tax” of 7 percent on all profits a company reports over $100 million. She wants to create an “ultra-millionaire” tax that would impose a 2 percent annual tax on every dollar of net worth above $50 million dollars, and 6 percent on every dollar of net worth above $1 billion. The proposal would raise an estimated $3.75 trillion over 10 years. The revenue would support higher teacher salaries, investments in school infrastructure, free or low-cost child care and other initiatives. She wants to repeal a federal law that allows “right to work” policies, in which workers can opt out of paying union dues if their workplace has union representation. Warren supports increasing the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour.
",https://elizabethwarren.com/plans#rebuild-the-middle-class,Senator,Massachusetts,Democrat,In the race,https://storage.googleapis.com/cdn.thenevadaindependent.com/2019/03/ac57d1ba-elizabeth-warren.jpg,"Elizabeth Warren was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in 1949. Before obtaining her law degree, she was a teacher focusing on children with disabilities. She also served as a lawyer and a law professor at several universities, including Harvard. She was elected to the Senate in 2012. "
Elizabeth Warren,Climate change,"Warren is in favor of re-joining the Paris Agreement, an international pact to battle climate change and reduce carbon emissions, and requiring countries participate in the agreement before they can negotiate trade deals with the U.S. She wants to end subsidies for fossil fuel companies. She proposes a “Green Marshall Plan” that would help countries in need buy clean energy technologies manufactured in the U.S. She proposes a plan similar to the Green New Deal, a government stimulus that promotes the use of clean energy to improve the environment and fosters the creation of new jobs. She supports spending $3 trillion over a period of 10 years for the U.S. to reach 100 percent clean, renewable and zero-emission electricity generation by 2035. She wants to invest a trillion dollars in communities affected by pollution and climate change, specifically communities of color.",https://elizabethwarren.com/plans/climate-change,Senator,Massachusetts,Democrat,In the race,https://storage.googleapis.com/cdn.thenevadaindependent.com/2019/03/ac57d1ba-elizabeth-warren.jpg,"Elizabeth Warren was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in 1949. Before obtaining her law degree, she was a teacher focusing on children with disabilities. She also served as a lawyer and a law professor at several universities, including Harvard. She was elected to the Senate in 2012. "
Elizabeth Warren,Gun control,"Warren wants to issue executive orders to expand background checks, including to sales at gun shows and online. She wants to raise the minimum age required to buy any firearm to 21. She wants to ban the future sale, manufacture and importation of “military-style assault weapons,” and wants to require people currently in possession of such weapons to sell them back to the federal government or register them. She wants to ban high-capacity magazines. She wants to restrict firearms from being transported across international borders, including banning the importation of foreign-manufactured assault weapons into the U.S. She wants to clear the way for gun dealers to face civil liability when weapons are used to commit crimes. She seeks to investigate the National Rifle Association (NRA) for allegedly using member dues to make “lavish” payments to organization leaders.",https://elizabethwarren.com/plans/gun-violence,Senator,Massachusetts,Democrat,In the race,https://storage.googleapis.com/cdn.thenevadaindependent.com/2019/03/ac57d1ba-elizabeth-warren.jpg,"Elizabeth Warren was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in 1949. Before obtaining her law degree, she was a teacher focusing on children with disabilities. She also served as a lawyer and a law professor at several universities, including Harvard. She was elected to the Senate in 2012. "
Pete Buttigieg,Gun control,"Buttigieg is in favor of establishing a universal background check system and closing the “gun show loophole.” He seeks to ban assault weapons and magazines that hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition. He supports a voluntary buyback program for assault weapons, but has pushed back on opponents who propose mandatory buybacks. Wants to implement a nationwide “permit-to-purchase” gun licensing system. He released a plan to deal with domestic terrorism by expanding the FBI’s domestic counterterrorism field staff and he wants to eliminate the spread of violence by extremist groups in social networks through more coordination between social media companies and the government.
",https://peteforamerica.com/policies/preventing-gun-violence/,Former mayor of South Bend,Indiana,Democrat,In the race,https://storage.googleapis.com/cdn.thenevadaindependent.com/2019/03/9f23ebbe-pete-buttigieg.jpg,"Pete Buttigieg was born in 1982 in South Bend, Indiana, where he was the mayor from 2012 to early 2020. He graduated from Harvard University and the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. From 2009 to 2017, he was an intelligence officer in the U.S. Naval Reserve. 

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Pete Buttigieg,Immigration,"Buttigieg supports restoring and extending protections for beneficiaries of the Deferred Action for Childhood arrivals (DACA) program, and pushing for legislation that would create a path to citizenship for 11 million undocumented people living in the U.S. He wants to create an independent immigration court system, instead of the current arrangement in which those courts are under the executive branch’s Department of Justice. He wants to end the separation of families and shift responsibility for processing centers from Customs and Border Protection (CPB) to the Department of Health and Human Services to improve conditions. 
",https://peteforamerica.com/policies/immigration/,Former mayor of South Bend,Indiana,Democrat,In the race,https://storage.googleapis.com/cdn.thenevadaindependent.com/2019/03/9f23ebbe-pete-buttigieg.jpg,"Pete Buttigieg was born in 1982 in South Bend, Indiana, where he was the mayor from 2012 to early 2020. He graduated from Harvard University and the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. From 2009 to 2017, he was an intelligence officer in the U.S. Naval Reserve. 

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Pete Buttigieg,Health care system,"Buttigieg proposes “Medicare for all who want it,” or public insurance for those who want it but without eliminating private insurance, and plans to pay for the estimated $1.5 trillion cost over 10 years by rolling back the Trump administration’s tax cuts and through cost savings by allowing the federal government to negotiate drug prices with pharmaceutical companies. He opposes Medicare for all, a government health insurance plan that would provide coverage to Americans and replace what is offered by private insurers, because he questions the costs of implementing it and its chances of passing Congress, but says the public option will ""create a natural glide-path to Medicare for All."" He supports expanding subsidies for health plans offered on Obamacare exchanges, and capping premiums a 8.5 percent of income. ",https://peteforamerica.com/policies/health-care/,Former mayor of South Bend,Indiana,Democrat,In the race,https://storage.googleapis.com/cdn.thenevadaindependent.com/2019/03/9f23ebbe-pete-buttigieg.jpg,"Pete Buttigieg was born in 1982 in South Bend, Indiana, where he was the mayor from 2012 to early 2020. He graduated from Harvard University and the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. From 2009 to 2017, he was an intelligence officer in the U.S. Naval Reserve. 

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Pete Buttigieg,Education,"Buttigieg wants to make public college tuition free for families making up to $100,000, and provide significant subsidies for families making up to $150,000. He wants to invest $50 billion over 10 years into historically black, tribal and minority-serving institutions. He wants to add $120 billion to the Pell Grant program and raise the maximum grant by $1,000.",https://peteforamerica.com/policies/higher-education/,Former mayor of South Bend,Indiana,Democrat,In the race,https://storage.googleapis.com/cdn.thenevadaindependent.com/2019/03/9f23ebbe-pete-buttigieg.jpg,"Pete Buttigieg was born in 1982 in South Bend, Indiana, where he was the mayor from 2012 to early 2020. He graduated from Harvard University and the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. From 2009 to 2017, he was an intelligence officer in the U.S. Naval Reserve. 

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Pete Buttigieg,Economy,"Buttigieg wants to raise the corporate tax rate from 21 percent to 35 percent — the level it was before Republican-backed tax cuts in 2017. He wants to tax capital gains at the same rate as ordinary income for the top 1 percent of earners. He wants to ban “right to work” laws that allow people in workplaces represented by unions to opt out of paying union dues. He wants to raise the standard for classifying workers as “independent contractors,” thus allowing them access to a minimum wage, overtime, antidiscrimination protections and the ability to unionize. He wants to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour and index it to wage growth.",https://peteforamerica.com/policies/empower-workers/,Former mayor of South Bend,Indiana,Democrat,In the race,https://storage.googleapis.com/cdn.thenevadaindependent.com/2019/03/9f23ebbe-pete-buttigieg.jpg,"Pete Buttigieg was born in 1982 in South Bend, Indiana, where he was the mayor from 2012 to early 2020. He graduated from Harvard University and the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. From 2009 to 2017, he was an intelligence officer in the U.S. Naval Reserve. 

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Pete Buttigieg,Climate change,"Buttigieg is in favor of the country re-joining the Paris Agreement, an international pact to battle climate change and reduce carbon emissions. He wants to establish a Green New Deal, a government stimulus that promotes the use of clean energy to improve the climate and foster the creation of new jobs. His plan includes quadrupling the amount of research and development money spent on clean energy technology and creating more than 3 million jobs over the next decade, including new training for workers in sectors previously supported by the use of fossil fuels. He wants to end subsidies for fossil fuel companies, increase royalty rates on public land that is used for the production of these fuels and close public lands to new leases for fossil fuel companies. He wants the country to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.",https://peteforamerica.com/policies/climate/,Former mayor of South Bend,Indiana,Democrat,In the race,https://storage.googleapis.com/cdn.thenevadaindependent.com/2019/03/9f23ebbe-pete-buttigieg.jpg,"Pete Buttigieg was born in 1982 in South Bend, Indiana, where he was the mayor from 2012 to early 2020. He graduated from Harvard University and the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. From 2009 to 2017, he was an intelligence officer in the U.S. Naval Reserve. 

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Joe Biden,Health care system,"Biden has criticized his opponents for their support of Medicare for all, saying it would raise taxes on the middle class. He is in favor of building on the Affordable Care Act (ACA, popularly known as Obamacare) and adding a public option, which is an insurance plan backed by the government that competes with private insurance. He supports allowing Medicare to negotiate with drug companies with the goal of limiting drug price hikes and holding down drug launch prices. 
",https://joebiden.com/healthcare/,Former vice president,Delaware,Democrat,In the race,https://storage.googleapis.com/cdn.thenevadaindependent.com/2019/03/776a10b0-joe-biden.jpg,"Joe Biden was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, in 1942, but he grew up in Delaware, the state he represented as a senator from 1973 until 2009. That year, he assumed office as the 47th Vice President of the United States to work alongside President Barack Obama. Before his political career, Biden was a lawyer and a public defender.
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Joe Biden,Gun control,"Biden wants to implement laws to expand background checks and close the “gun show loophole.” He wants to prohibit the manufacture and sale of assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. He wants to start a program through which either the government buys back such weapons from their owners, or requires them to be registered under the National Firearms Act. He seeks to end the sale of arms and ammunition through the internet. He wants to repeal a 2005 law that protects gun manufacturers from being civilly liable for their products. ",https://joebiden.com/gunsafety/,Former vice president,Delaware,Democrat,In the race,https://storage.googleapis.com/cdn.thenevadaindependent.com/2019/03/776a10b0-joe-biden.jpg,"Joe Biden was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, in 1942, but he grew up in Delaware, the state he represented as a senator from 1973 until 2009. That year, he assumed office as the 47th Vice President of the United States to work alongside President Barack Obama. Before his political career, Biden was a lawyer and a public defender.
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Joe Biden,Education,"Biden is in favor of providing two years of tuition-free community college. He wants to expand financial aid by doubling the value of Pell Grants, which offer up to $6,195 a year for college. He wants to expand an income-based student loan repayment plan so people making less than $25,000 a year do not owe payments or accrue interest on their undergraduate loans. He supports investing $18 billion in historically black colleges and universities, as well as minority-serving institutions.",https://joebiden.com/beyondhs/,Former vice president,Delaware,Democrat,In the race,https://storage.googleapis.com/cdn.thenevadaindependent.com/2019/03/776a10b0-joe-biden.jpg,"Joe Biden was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, in 1942, but he grew up in Delaware, the state he represented as a senator from 1973 until 2009. That year, he assumed office as the 47th Vice President of the United States to work alongside President Barack Obama. Before his political career, Biden was a lawyer and a public defender.
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Joe Biden,Immigration,"Biden supports comprehensive immigration reform that includes a path to citizenship for beneficiaries of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, and reinstating the cancelled program in the meantime. He wants to immediately reverse policies that lead to family separation, including prosecuting parents for minor immigration violations. He aims to invest in better technology and improve coordination across government agencies to improve border security. He has faced criticism over the rate of deportations during the Obama-Biden administration, which reached record numbers. More than 3 million immigrants were deported between 2009 and 2016. 
",https://joebiden.com/joes-vision/,Former vice president,Delaware,Democrat,In the race,https://storage.googleapis.com/cdn.thenevadaindependent.com/2019/03/776a10b0-joe-biden.jpg,"Joe Biden was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, in 1942, but he grew up in Delaware, the state he represented as a senator from 1973 until 2009. That year, he assumed office as the 47th Vice President of the United States to work alongside President Barack Obama. Before his political career, Biden was a lawyer and a public defender.
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Joe Biden,Climate change,"Biden proposes that the country recommit to the Paris Agreement, an international pact to battle climate change and reduce carbon emissions, and says he will “lead an effort to get every major country to ramp up the ambition of their domestic climate targets.” Biden wants the U.S. to achieve a 100 percent clean energy economy and zero emissions economy by 2050, and plans to sign executive orders to start the process. He wants to end subsidies for fossil fuel companies. He proposes congressionally approved enforcement mechanisms and incentives to achieve those goals. He wants the U.S. to export clean-energy technology worldwide to create jobs in the U.S. He says he will take action against fossil fuel companies and other polluters.",https://joebiden.com/climate/,Former vice president,Delaware,Democrat,In the race,https://storage.googleapis.com/cdn.thenevadaindependent.com/2019/03/776a10b0-joe-biden.jpg,"Joe Biden was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, in 1942, but he grew up in Delaware, the state he represented as a senator from 1973 until 2009. That year, he assumed office as the 47th Vice President of the United States to work alongside President Barack Obama. Before his political career, Biden was a lawyer and a public defender.
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Joe Biden,Economy,"Biden wants to revoke provisions for the wealthy and large corporations in the Tax Cut and Jobs Act, a law approved by Congress and signed into law by Trump in 2017, and has called Trump’s tax policy “a disaster for the middle class.” His plan to raise revenue includes raising the corporate tax from 21 percent to 28 percent, and taxing capital gains as regular income for those earning more than $1 million. He wants to ban “right to work” laws that prohibit unions from collecting dues from workers who benefit from union representation. During his tenure as vice president in 2013, President Barack Obama signed a law that averted scheduled income tax increases, and extended the “earned income tax credit” for low-income households. He is in favor of increasing the federal minimum wage to $15.
",https://joebiden.com/empowerworkers/,Former vice president,Delaware,Democrat,In the race,https://storage.googleapis.com/cdn.thenevadaindependent.com/2019/03/776a10b0-joe-biden.jpg,"Joe Biden was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, in 1942, but he grew up in Delaware, the state he represented as a senator from 1973 until 2009. That year, he assumed office as the 47th Vice President of the United States to work alongside President Barack Obama. Before his political career, Biden was a lawyer and a public defender.
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Amy Klobuchar,Climate change,"Klobuchar is in favor of the country rejoining the Paris Agreement, an international pact to battle climate change and reduce carbon emissions, on her first day in office. She seeks to achieve 100 percent net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. She wants to end fossil fuel subsidies. She wants to invest in infrastructure and provide incentives for state and local governments to expand their production of clean energy. She supports a “carbon pricing system” to make clean energy technology more cost-competitive. ",https://amyklobuchar.com/combating-climate-change/,Senator,Minnesota,Democrat,In the race,https://storage.googleapis.com/cdn.thenevadaindependent.com/2019/04/d4a47e8d-amy-klobuchar.jpg,"Amy Klobuchar was born in Plymouth, Minnesota in 1960. She was elected senator in 2006. She graduated from Yale University and the University of Chicago College of Law. Before being elected as a U.S. senator she served as district attorney in Hennepin County, Minnesota. 
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Amy Klobuchar,Economy,"Klobuchar supports raising the corporate tax rate from 21 percent to 25 percent and wants to “reverse the corporate giveaways in the 2017 Republican tax bill.” She wants to roll back “right to work” laws, which allow people to opt out of paying union dues even if their workplace is represented by a union. She supports increasing the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour. ",https://amyklobuchar.com/issue/shared-prosperity-and-economic-justice/,Senator,Minnesota,Democrat,In the race,https://storage.googleapis.com/cdn.thenevadaindependent.com/2019/04/d4a47e8d-amy-klobuchar.jpg,"Amy Klobuchar was born in Plymouth, Minnesota in 1960. She was elected senator in 2006. She graduated from Yale University and the University of Chicago College of Law. Before being elected as a U.S. senator she served as district attorney in Hennepin County, Minnesota. 
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Amy Klobuchar,Education,"Klobuchar opposes debt-free or tuition-free four-year college, but supports free community college, and she would offer financial incentives that involve the federal government offering $3 in matching funds for every $1 a state spends on two-year degrees. She opposes sweeping plans to forgive the $1.5 trillion in student loan debt held by American borrowers, calling it unrealistic, but supports allowing borrowers to refinance their student loans with a better interest rate. She wants to expand access to the Pell Grant (a federal government program that issues grants to low-income students and currently provides up to $6,195 each year per student) for families with an income of up to $100,000 a year, and double the current maximum grant to $12,000.",https://medium.com/@AmyforAmerica/senator-klobuchars-many-paths-to-success-post-secondary-education-plan-8df6bf538727,Senator,Minnesota,Democrat,In the race,https://storage.googleapis.com/cdn.thenevadaindependent.com/2019/04/d4a47e8d-amy-klobuchar.jpg,"Amy Klobuchar was born in Plymouth, Minnesota in 1960. She was elected senator in 2006. She graduated from Yale University and the University of Chicago College of Law. Before being elected as a U.S. senator she served as district attorney in Hennepin County, Minnesota. 
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Amy Klobuchar,Health care system,"Klobuchar opposes Medicare for all, a government health insurance plan that would provide coverage to Americans and replace what is offered by private insurers, saying the proposal is too extreme for most Americans. She supports a “public option,” such as allowing people to buy into Medicare or Medicaid, and allowing consumers to keep their private insurance if they want to. She proposes expanding public health insurance programs by reducing the age to gain access to Medicare and expanding Medicaid in states that haven’t widened eligibility under the Affordable Care Act.",https://amyklobuchar.com/issue/health-care/,Senator,Minnesota,Democrat,In the race,https://storage.googleapis.com/cdn.thenevadaindependent.com/2019/04/d4a47e8d-amy-klobuchar.jpg,"Amy Klobuchar was born in Plymouth, Minnesota in 1960. She was elected senator in 2006. She graduated from Yale University and the University of Chicago College of Law. Before being elected as a U.S. senator she served as district attorney in Hennepin County, Minnesota. 
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Amy Klobuchar,Immigration,"Klobuchar said that in her first 100 days in office, she will “undo attempts by the Trump Administration … to deport DREAMers.” She says that, if elected, she would negotiate with Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform during her first year in office. That reform would include a pathway to citizenship, the DREAM Act and border security. In 2018, she expressed willingness to support some funding for President Donald Trump’s border wall in exchange for Democratic immigration priorities. She proposes policy changes to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) but does not support eliminating it, saying that ""we are always going to need immigration enforcement.”
",https://amyklobuchar.com/issue/shared-prosperity-and-economic-justice/,Senator,Minnesota,Democrat,In the race,https://storage.googleapis.com/cdn.thenevadaindependent.com/2019/04/d4a47e8d-amy-klobuchar.jpg,"Amy Klobuchar was born in Plymouth, Minnesota in 1960. She was elected senator in 2006. She graduated from Yale University and the University of Chicago College of Law. Before being elected as a U.S. senator she served as district attorney in Hennepin County, Minnesota. 
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Amy Klobuchar,Gun control,"Klobuchar supports universal background checks that close the “gun show loophole.” She wants to ban magazines that hold more than ten rounds of ammunition. She wants to raise the minimum age to buy assault weapons to 21, with the goal of banning them altogether. She wants to increase inspections of weapons manufacturers and distributors to “crack down” on those who violate the law.",https://medium.com/@AmyforAmerica/turning-ideas-into-action-senator-klobuchar-on-gun-violence-57fb7bc94d67,Senator,Minnesota,Democrat,In the race,https://storage.googleapis.com/cdn.thenevadaindependent.com/2019/04/d4a47e8d-amy-klobuchar.jpg,"Amy Klobuchar was born in Plymouth, Minnesota in 1960. She was elected senator in 2006. She graduated from Yale University and the University of Chicago College of Law. Before being elected as a U.S. senator she served as district attorney in Hennepin County, Minnesota. 
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Andrew Yang,Gun control,"Yang supports expanding federal background checks to close the “gun show loophole,” and wants to impose purchase limits on guns. He wants to establish a clear definition of “assault weapons”  and prohibit their manufacture and sale. He proposes a detailed system to grant permits to carry weapons that requires renewal every five years. The process would include passing one basic hunting or gun safety class, submitting to an interview with a federal agent who would have limited discretion to grant the permit, and requiring a receipt for a weapon locker, trigger lock or other safety device. 
",https://www.yang2020.com/policies/gun-safety/,Businessman,New York,Democrat,In the race,https://storage.googleapis.com/cdn.thenevadaindependent.com/2019/04/60f19bb4-andrew-yang.jpg,"Andrew Yang was born in Schenectady, New York in 1975. He graduated from Brown University and Columbia University. He founded Venture for America, a non-profit organization that promotes entrepreneurship in local communities. 
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Andrew Yang,Immigration,"Yang supports the DREAM Act as part of a comprehensive immigration reform package that includes border security. He’s in favor of creating a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants who have been in the U.S. for a “substantial amount of time,” although he has not specified a number of years. The plan requires they pay taxes and have not been convicted of a felony, and would allow them to achieve citizenship in 18 years. He proposes to secure the southern border to reduce illegal immigration through investments in customs enforcement, technology to patrol less-monitored stretches of the border, and more cooperation with the Mexican government. ",https://www.yang2020.com/policies/pathway-to-citizenship-2/,Businessman,New York,Democrat,In the race,https://storage.googleapis.com/cdn.thenevadaindependent.com/2019/04/60f19bb4-andrew-yang.jpg,"Andrew Yang was born in Schenectady, New York in 1975. He graduated from Brown University and Columbia University. He founded Venture for America, a non-profit organization that promotes entrepreneurship in local communities. 
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Andrew Yang,Health care system,"Yang supports “spirit of Medicare for all” but thinks “swiftly reformatting 18% of our economy and eliminating private insurance for millions of Americans is not a realistic strategy.” He said his proposed health care solution would be based on Medicare but expanded to more people over time, including by lowering the eligibility age, and would still permit some private insurances. He wants to control prescription drug prices by allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices with pharmaceutical companies, as well as through public manufacturing facilities to make generic drugs and importing medications from other countries. ",https://www.yang2020.com/policies/medicare-for-all/,Businessman,New York,Democrat,In the race,https://storage.googleapis.com/cdn.thenevadaindependent.com/2019/04/60f19bb4-andrew-yang.jpg,"Andrew Yang was born in Schenectady, New York in 1975. He graduated from Brown University and Columbia University. He founded Venture for America, a non-profit organization that promotes entrepreneurship in local communities. 
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Andrew Yang,Education,"Yang supports free or extremely low cost community college, but does not support tuition-free four-year colleges, saying such expenditures would only help a small portion of the population. He supports forgiving most student debt. He wants to push colleges to reduce their tuition costs, including by increasing the ratio of students to administrators as a condition of public funding and capping spending increases for schools that receive public money. ",https://www.yang2020.com/policies/student-loan-debt/,Businessman,New York,Democrat,In the race,https://storage.googleapis.com/cdn.thenevadaindependent.com/2019/04/60f19bb4-andrew-yang.jpg,"Andrew Yang was born in Schenectady, New York in 1975. He graduated from Brown University and Columbia University. He founded Venture for America, a non-profit organization that promotes entrepreneurship in local communities. 
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Andrew Yang,Economy,"Yang proposes a Freedom Dividend, a universal income of $1,000 a month for each American adult over 18 regardless of his/her employment status or other factors. He proposes paying for this through a 10 percent value-added tax — a consumption tax applied at each stage of the supply chain where value is added to a product. Yang says universal income is a better policy than raising the minimum wage to $15, which he says will encourage companies to replace workers with automation and robots. He encourages each state to set its own minimum wage.
",https://www.yang2020.com/policies/,Businessman,New York,Democrat,In the race,https://storage.googleapis.com/cdn.thenevadaindependent.com/2019/04/60f19bb4-andrew-yang.jpg,"Andrew Yang was born in Schenectady, New York in 1975. He graduated from Brown University and Columbia University. He founded Venture for America, a non-profit organization that promotes entrepreneurship in local communities. 
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Andrew Yang,Climate change,"Yang is in favor of the country re-joining the Paris Agreement, an international pact to battle climate change and reduce carbon emissions. He largely supports the Green New Deal, a proposal to establish regulations to fight climate change and spur job creation by the government, but thinks the country needs more time to carry it out.  He wants to reduce emissions to zero by 2049. He proposes ending subsidies for fossil fuel companies and using the money to retrain workers. He wants to invest in incentives for companies to upgrade electrical infrastructure, and provide federal funding to move communities that are already suffering the effects of climate change inland or to higher ground. He estimates the plan will cost $4.87 trillion over 20 years.
",https://www.yang2020.com/blog/climate-change/,Businessman,New York,Democrat,In the race,https://storage.googleapis.com/cdn.thenevadaindependent.com/2019/04/60f19bb4-andrew-yang.jpg,"Andrew Yang was born in Schenectady, New York in 1975. He graduated from Brown University and Columbia University. He founded Venture for America, a non-profit organization that promotes entrepreneurship in local communities. 
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Tom Steyer,Gun control,"Steyer is in favor of universal background checks and closing the “gun show loophole.” He wants to ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines and implement a voluntary buyback program for all firearms, including handguns. He wants to require a license for gun possession. He wants to fund Department of Homeland Security programs on domestic terrorism, including ones to deter white supremacists. He wants to increase federal funding so that law enforcement can develop intervention strategies in domestic violence cases. ",https://www.tomsteyer.com/we-can-end-gun-violence/,Former hedge fund manager,California,Democrat,In the race,https://storage.googleapis.com/cdn.thenevadaindependent.com/2019/07/055ee32b-tom-steyer.png,"Tom Steyer was born in New York City in 1957. He is an investor, a billionaire and a philanthropist who graduated from Yale University and Stanford University. In 2010, Steyer and his wife, Kathryn Taylor, promised to donate the majority of their fortune to charity. He founded NextGen America, a non-profit progressive organization that focuses on mobilizing young voters, but he resigned his leadership position in that group as part of his presidential candidacy. 

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Tom Steyer,Health care system,"Steyer supports a health care system that includes a public option — an insurance plan administered by the government that can compete with private insurers. He opposes Medicare for all, a government health insurance plan that would provide coverage to Americans and replace what is offered by private insurers. He wants to allow the government to negotiate prices with pharmaceutical companies and wants to cap the prices of prescription drugs.
",https://www.tomsteyer.com/policies/,Former hedge fund manager,California,Democrat,In the race,https://storage.googleapis.com/cdn.thenevadaindependent.com/2019/07/055ee32b-tom-steyer.png,"Tom Steyer was born in New York City in 1957. He is an investor, a billionaire and a philanthropist who graduated from Yale University and Stanford University. In 2010, Steyer and his wife, Kathryn Taylor, promised to donate the majority of their fortune to charity. He founded NextGen America, a non-profit progressive organization that focuses on mobilizing young voters, but he resigned his leadership position in that group as part of his presidential candidacy. 

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Tom Steyer,Education,"Steyer said on his website that “it's time for better oversight at the Education Department and to make sure everyone has the right to a free, quality education.” He supports “forgiving certain types of student loan debt, reforming the public service student loan forgiveness program, making the refinancing of student loans easier” and “cracking down on predatory student loan servicers.” He wants to invest $125 billion over 10 years into historically black colleges and universities. He supports universal pre-K.  He proposes salary increases for teachers and he wants to encourage professional development. 
",https://www.tomsteyer.com/policies/,Former hedge fund manager,California,Democrat,In the race,https://storage.googleapis.com/cdn.thenevadaindependent.com/2019/07/055ee32b-tom-steyer.png,"Tom Steyer was born in New York City in 1957. He is an investor, a billionaire and a philanthropist who graduated from Yale University and Stanford University. In 2010, Steyer and his wife, Kathryn Taylor, promised to donate the majority of their fortune to charity. He founded NextGen America, a non-profit progressive organization that focuses on mobilizing young voters, but he resigned his leadership position in that group as part of his presidential candidacy. 

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Tom Steyer,Economy,"Steyer would reverse the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which Congress approved and Trump signed into a law in 2017. He proposes that families making less than $250,000 and individuals making less than $200,000 would get a 10 percent tax cut. He would implement a 1 percent tax on capital to those with a net worth exceeding $32 million, with those worth $500 million or more paying 1.5 cents and those worth $1 billion paying 2 cents. He projects that wealth tax would raise $1.7 trillion over ten years. He is in favor of increasing the minimum wage to $15 per hour.",https://www.tomsteyer.com/people-over-profits/,Former hedge fund manager,California,Democrat,In the race,https://storage.googleapis.com/cdn.thenevadaindependent.com/2019/07/055ee32b-tom-steyer.png,"Tom Steyer was born in New York City in 1957. He is an investor, a billionaire and a philanthropist who graduated from Yale University and Stanford University. In 2010, Steyer and his wife, Kathryn Taylor, promised to donate the majority of their fortune to charity. He founded NextGen America, a non-profit progressive organization that focuses on mobilizing young voters, but he resigned his leadership position in that group as part of his presidential candidacy. 

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Tom Steyer,Climate change,"Steyer is in favor of the country rejoining the Paris Agreement, an international pact to battle climate change and reduce carbon emissions, on the first day of his presidency. If elected, he plans to declare climate change a national emergency on his first day in office. He wants to eliminate air pollution from diesel engines, power plants and other sources by 2030, and achieve a 100 percent clean energy economy and net-zero global warming pollution by 2045. He says he will “end all forms of government giveaways to big polluters at the expense of American taxpayers,"" including direct subsidies. He wants to help communities transition to clean energy by establishing a Civilian Climate Corps focused on providing training and creating 1 million jobs, funding $250 billion in “National Healthy Communities Climate Bonds” and $50 billion for former fossil fuel workers and their communities.

",https://www.tomsteyer.com/climate-justice/,Former hedge fund manager,California,Democrat,In the race,https://storage.googleapis.com/cdn.thenevadaindependent.com/2019/07/055ee32b-tom-steyer.png,"Tom Steyer was born in New York City in 1957. He is an investor, a billionaire and a philanthropist who graduated from Yale University and Stanford University. In 2010, Steyer and his wife, Kathryn Taylor, promised to donate the majority of their fortune to charity. He founded NextGen America, a non-profit progressive organization that focuses on mobilizing young voters, but he resigned his leadership position in that group as part of his presidential candidacy. 

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Tom Steyer,Immigration,"Steyer plans to reinstate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and enact the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Legal Residents (DAPA) program, which was created by Obama to protect undocumented parents with children who are U.S. citizens or legal permanent residents from deportation. The program did not go into effect because of a lawsuit that was filed by the State of Texas, and the Trump administration rescinded the program in 2017.  His plan includes working with Congress to provide a path to citizenship for undocumented people currently in the country and creating a national Office for New Americans. He supports restructuring the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office to “refocus their actions on their core mission of national security and fairly processing immigration claims.” He wants immigration courts to be an independent system under the legislative branch, instead of under the purview of the executive branch’s Department of Justice. He wants to provide more resources for agencies processing asylum claims and provide aid to asylum seekers’ countries of origin. He has donated to organizations that provide legal defense to immigrants. 
",https://www.tomsteyer.com/immigration-plan/,Former hedge fund manager,California,Democrat,In the race,https://storage.googleapis.com/cdn.thenevadaindependent.com/2019/07/055ee32b-tom-steyer.png,"Tom Steyer was born in New York City in 1957. He is an investor, a billionaire and a philanthropist who graduated from Yale University and Stanford University. In 2010, Steyer and his wife, Kathryn Taylor, promised to donate the majority of their fortune to charity. He founded NextGen America, a non-profit progressive organization that focuses on mobilizing young voters, but he resigned his leadership position in that group as part of his presidential candidacy. 

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