Campaign Literature—Mike Bloomberg 2020


                    Mike Bloomberg 2020

 

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Fix Health Care
•     Create a Medicare-like public option run by the federal government but paid for by customer premiums
•     Focus on covering those currently uninsured, including low-income Americans in states that haven't expanded Medicaid
•     Defend the Affordable Care Act and protect people with pre-existing conditions
•     Cap health care prices and ban surprise medical bills
•     Lower drug costs
 
Mike's Record
•     Reduced the number of uninsured in NYC by40%
•     Increased life expectancy for NYC residents by 3 years
•     Cut teen smoking by 50% and deaths from heart disease by 27% in NYC

Fight Climate Change
•     Immediately rejoin the Paris Agreement and meet the targets science recommends
•     Propel America toward a 100% clean-energy future as soon as humanly possible and before 2050, slashing our emissions in half by 2030
•     Make climate change a top priority of U.S. foreign policy and national security
•     Replace remaining U.S. coal plants with clean energy
•     Stop construction of all proposed gas plants
 
Mike's Record
•     Served as the UN Secretary General's Special Envoy for Climate Action
•     Helped close more than 50% of the country's coal-fired power plants
•     Reduced NYC's carbon footprint by 13%, expanded solar power, and eliminated dirty-burning heating oil

Increase Gun Safety
•     Create an effective national background check system
•     Keep guns out of the wrong hands, including domestic abusers
•     Protect our children by outlawing assault weapons, banning guns in schools except for law enforcement, and requiring secure storage of firearms
•     Tackle daily gun violence in the hardest-hit communities
•     Hold the gun industry accountable
 
Mike's Record
•     Helped launch Everytown for Gun Safety, which now has 6 million supporters and leads the charge on gun safety nationally
•     Invested $110 million to elect candidates strong on gun safety in the 2018 midterm elections
•     Launched groundbreaking undercover investigations to stop illegal gun sales by private sellers as mayor

Create an All-In Economy for All People in All Places
•     Make career education and training a national priority
•     Create jobs of the future in communities today by funding major R&D initiatives in industries like agriculture, manufacturing, and medicine
•     Enhance the Earned Income Tax Credit and pay it monthly
•     Increase minimum wage to $15 an hour
•     Invest in rural broadband access
 
Mike's Record
•     Created nearly 500,000 jobs as NYC's mayor
•     Built his own company from the ground up, employing 20,000 people
•     Established incubators in NYC that hosted more than 600 startups, which raised more than $100 million in venture funding

Improve Education and College Access
•     Raise teacher pay and make sure teachers have the training they need
•     Close student achievement gaps
•     Promote innovation in public schools
•     Increase support for career and technical education
•     Make America the world leader in college completion
 
Mike's Record
•     42% increase in graduation rates in NYC public schools, with African American and Latino students making the biggest gains
•     Doubled NYC's education budget and gave a 43% raise to teachers
•     Opened 656 new schools in NYC
•     His national CollegePoint program has connected 65,000 high­achieving, low-income high school students to free college counseling


Mike Made His Own Way


•     Grew up middle class - his father was an accountant who never earned more than $6,000 a year

•     Worked his way through college

•     Started a business that employs 20,000 people

•     Led the largest and most diverse city in the country as New York City's mayor for 12 years

•     Has supported candidates and organizations across the country tackling the nation's most urgent problems - from health care to gun safety to climate change

Mike Takes on the Toughest Fights - and Wins


Climate Change
Mike has taken on the coal lobby, leading an effort that's closed more than 50% of the nation's coal-fired power plants

Gun Safety
Mike helped build a national movement to take on the NRA that's won stronger gun safety laws in states across the country

Teen Smoking
Mike took on Big Tobacco and cut teen smoking by 50% in New York City. Now he's fighting to protect our kids from the dangers of e-cigarettes

Mike Will Get It Done

Defeat Donald Trump
•     President Trump is an existential threat to our future
•     Mike is the candidate best positioned to defeat Trump in November
•     He's a coalition builder with the resources to win

Unite the Country
•     As New York City's mayor, Mike united different constituencies to solve big problems
•     Mike is an independent leader who always puts progress over partisanship

Rebuild America
•     Mike has the skills and experience needed to fix our broken government
•     He will lead our nation with integrity, reason, and compassion

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