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Donkees's JournalBernie Sanders Will Stream on Twitch Before and After the Democratic Debate
Jun 26 2019
Excerpt:
The presidential campaign for Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders launched a Twitch channel on Monday night. The channel will host its first streams on Thursday night, before and after the Democratic presidential debate at 8:30 p.m. and 11:00 p.m., Eastern time.
"This campaign is about bring new people into the political process," the Sanders campaign said in an email. "As one of the first presidential campaigns ever to join Twitch, we hope to reach people who may not otherwise be involved in politics and speak with them about the issues that matter most to them."
Sanders has a “Donate” link on his Twitch page, which leads users to a separate page with a Twitch stream on the left and a donation portal on the right. At the time of writing, Sanders has over 8,800 Twitch followers (Yang has 225).
The Sanders Twitch channel launch marks an emerging trend among politicians in using live-streaming platforms in order to communicate with constituents or potential voters.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bj9ab8/bernie-sanders-just-launched-twitch-channel
https://www.twitch.tv/bernie_sanders
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Cuomo Prime Time: Faiz Shakir defends plan to erase $1.6 trillion in student debt
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Sanders, Jayapal and Omar Introduce Groundbreaking Bills to Ensure College For All and Eliminate All
Monday, June 24, 2019
Washington, June 24 — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) unveiled landmark legislation today to eliminate tuition and fees at all public four-year colleges and universities, as well as make community colleges, trade schools, and apprenticeship programs tuition- and fee-free for all. The three lawmakers’ proposal also eliminates all $1.6 trillion in student debt for 45 million Americans.
“This is truly a revolutionary proposal which accomplishes three major goals,” said Sanders. “First, in a highly competitive global economy, it makes certain that all Americans, regardless of income, can get the college education or job training they need to secure decent paying jobs by making public colleges, universities and trade schools tuition-free and debt-free.”
“Second, in a generation hard hit by the Wall Street crash of 2008,” Sanders said, “it forgives all student debt and ends the absurdity of sentencing an entire generation to a lifetime of debt for the ‘crime’ of getting a college education. Third, it pays for these proposals by implementing a tax on Wall Street speculators. In 2008, the American people bailed out Wall Street. Now, it is Wall Street's turn to help the middle class and working class of this country.”
“There is a crisis in higher education at a time when a postsecondary degree is more important than ever,” said Jayapal. “A college degree should be a right for all, not a privilege for the few. What’s more, our student debt crisis is oppressing borrowers of color, shutting them out from the benefits that American higher education can and should offer. I am so proud to stand with my colleagues and introduce this bold package of legislation to reinvest in our nation’s future. We are committed to restoring freedom to students, workers and families – freedom from the student debt that is holding them back.”
“There are currently 45 million Americans with student debt,” said Omar. “That’s 45 million people who are being held back from purchasing their first home; 45 million people who may feel that they can’t start a family; 45 million people who have dreams of opening a business or going into public service, but are held back.”
“My bill would end this crisis by cancelling all $1.6 trillion in student loan debt,” Omar said. “This would not only allow Americans struggling with debt pursue their dreams, but would unleash billions of dollars in economic growth—stimulating our entire economy. We can fully fund this with a small tax on Wall Street speculation. The American people bailed out Wall Street. It’s time for Wall Street to bail out American people.”
Under the College for All Act, the average student loan borrower would save about $3,000 a year, and the economy would get a boost of approximately $1 trillion over 10 years, which could be used to buy new homes, cars, and open up small businesses. Student debt is also disproportionately impacting African Americans and Latinos. Twelve years after starting college, for example, the median black borrower owed more than he or she had taken out in the first place.
The estimated $2.2 trillion cost of this bill would be paid for entirely by a tax on Wall Street speculation. During the financial crisis, Wall Street received the largest taxpayer bailout in the history of the United States. Now, argue the lawmakers, it’s Wall Street’s turn to help rebuild the disappearing middle class. The members of Congress propose imposing a small Wall Street speculation tax of just 0.5 percent on stock trades (50 cents for every $100 worth of stock), a 0.1 percent fee on bonds, and a 0.005 percent fee on derivatives, which would raise up to $2.4 trillion over the next decade. More than 1,000 economists have endorsed a tax on Wall Street speculation and some 40 countrieshave already imposed a similar financial transactions tax.
This milestone legislation was endorsed by the American Federation of Teachers, the National Education Association, Freedom to Prosper, Social Security Works, Progress America, Progressive Democrats of America, Student Action, People's Action, Debt Collective, the American Medical Students Association, CREDO Action, and the Council for Opportunity in Education (COE).
Read a fact sheet on College For All here.
Read the legislative text here.
Read a fact sheet on the Inclusive Prosperity Act to raise revenue for the proposal here.
https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/sanders-jayapal-and-omar-introduce-groundbreaking-bills-to-ensure-college-for-all-and-eliminate-all-student-debt
Video: Bernie Sanders unveils plan to eliminate $1.6 trillion in student loan debt
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) announces legislation on student loan debt alongside Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.)
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https://twitter.com/StephanieKelton/status/1143151875111444482Bernie Sanders's free college proposal just got a whole lot bigger
Jun 23, 2019
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The Vermont senator will unveil the most ambitious higher education plan in the Democratic 2020 presidential primary so far on Monday. The proposal would make two- and four-year public and tribal colleges and universities tuition-free and debt-free, and erase the roughly $1.6 trillion in student loan debt currently owed in the US, paid for by a tax on Wall Street.
Sanders is proposing funding streams to states, tribes, and historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) to allow them to eliminate undergraduate tuition and fees. The bill would also increase spending on work-study programs, and build up federal grant programs for low-income students for additional costs related to getting an education — from housing and transportation to buying books.
The proposal would cost $2.2 trillion over 10 years, which Sanders says would be paid for with his Wall Street tax. Sanders proposed a Wall Street speculation tax in 2016, which would raise small levies on buying and selling stocks, bonds, and derivatives. It’s a proposal that many experts estimate could raise hundreds of billions of dollars annually. Sanders’s office cited progressive economist Robert Pollin’s projection that the tax would bring in $2.4 trillion in revenues over 10 years.
Sanders newest College for All Act, briefly explained
Here’s how Sanders’s College for All Act would work:
The federal government would give states and tribes at least $48 billion per year, through a two-to-one federal dollar match program, if states commit to eliminating tuitions and fees at public universities and colleges.
To receive the federal funding, states and tribes would have to meet some requirements: Essentially, they’d have to show the Department of Education that they will maintain higher education and need-based financial aid funding and rely less on adjunct faculty to teach classes. States and tribes would also have to show that they can cover the full cost of higher education for the poorest families, those who earn less than $25,000. For tribal colleges with at least 75 percent low income student enrollment — students eligible for the Pell Grant — the federal government would cover 95 percent of costs to eliminate tuition and fees. ...
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/6/23/18714615/bernie-sanders-free-college-for-all-2020-student-loan-debt
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