Democratic platform draft includes $15 minimum wage, bank breakup – as it happened

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Democratic platform draft includes $15 minimum wage, bank breakup – as it happened

Updated 3h ago

Scott Bixby (now) and Tom McCarthy (earlier)
Friday 1 July 2016 23.07 BST

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The Democratic party has released a draft of its national party platform online this afternoon. The first draft, which will be finalized at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia later this month, features a long wishlist of progressive policies, including a $15 national minimum wage, equal pay for women, a “multimillionaire surtax,” acknowledgment that the Trans-Pacific Partnership is controversial within the party and numerous other policy planks.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2016/jul/01/donald-trump-conspiracy-bill-clinton-loretta-lynch-election-2016

Related: 2016 Democratic Party Platform DRAFT July 1, 2016

[GeorgiaPeanuts]

1. Thank you Bernie for all the work you are doing on behalf of your supporters...

Don't let the haters hold you back. We got this fam!

[demwing]

2. off to the greatest page for this great news! /nt

[lostnfound]

3. Thanks Bernie for not forgetting the people who supported you, trying to give a voice

The power brokers want you to go away quietly.
But those of us who donated money in hopes of a shift toward fairness. In our economy appreciate you continuing to raise these issues as the only person in a position to challenge the normal milquetoast economic incrementalism that the rest of Washington keeps pushing on us.
Thank you.

[Ash_F]

4. This is good news.