We can't allow the biggest banks to funnel their extra cash into stock buybacks that juice their profits instead of investing in the real economy.
Elizabeth Warren
The Public Record
Elizabeth Ann Warren is an American attorney, academic, and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Massachusetts since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, she has been a prominent advocate for consumer protection, economic equality, and corporate regulation. Warren gained national recognition for her work in establishing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and has focused on issues such as student debt relief and healthcare reform during her tenure in the Senate.
We cannot allow the biggest banks to funnel their extra cash into stock buybacks that juice their profits instead of investing in the real economy.
He will return with a deep understanding of the Division's tools, with a well-known strategy to protect workers.
He pursued investigations that sought justice for some of our Nation's most vulnerable workers.
There are few, if any, more knowledgeable or qualified people that the president could have nominated for this position.
Without that revenue, we cannot have all nations make the investments in health, education and labor standards we need.
We have a chance to show China and the whole world that an American approach that invests in and empowers workers is the most effective way to compete.
To be competitive in this century we must advance and broaden the right to vote.
These bills and other clean energy investments with strong labor provisions should be included in the infrastructure package that Congress is working on now.
If we give American workers the tools they need, they can compete with anyone, including global economic rivals like China.
It is not the job of the United States Government to work to boost profits of big multinationals that have no particular loyalty to the United States.
Our previous leadership was attained by having a government that bet on the American people and invested heavily in Americans.
This is the moment for the United States to step up. We can and we must do better for our workers.
Let us lead by example as a Nation, to define the rules of global competition.
I am fighting for universal, high-quality, available child care that will make sure that every child who needs it has access to it, and that people who are child care workers will be paid the wages that they deserve.
Our failure to support working families, and especially working women, has left the U.S. behind.
Real investment in American competitiveness would mean spending Federal dollars on things that help families succeed economically.
I worry that we risk losing that competitive advantage if we do not take action to address the risks in this rapidly and growing market in crypto.
So I love this--you know, it is fair wages, it is Davis Bacon, it is child care, fair labor standards, the ability to have a collective bargaining agreement--all of those help strengthen our workers.
We need to think about U.S. workers, not at the end of the process, but at the beginning of the process.
If we want trade deals to work for everyone, not just for big corporations, it is not enough to say we are going to put this on one President.
So 6 million lost jobs from this negotiated trade agreement that was great for multinational corporations, just not good for Chinese workers, and definitely not good for American workers.
Investing in workers should be the core of our domestic agenda and our trade agenda.
It is not the job of the U.S. Government to work to boost profits of big multinationals that have no particular loyalty to the United States.





