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Issue Position: Economic Opportunity

Issue Position

Date: Jan. 1, 2020
Issues: Business and Consumers Employment and Affirmative Action

As co-chair of Delaware's Living Wage Coalition, Larry worked with politicians in Dover and across the state to advocate to increase the minimum wage, but we can still make more progress. Raising wages and strengthening labor protections translates into more money being spent on goods and services, creating more jobs, and stimulating the economy.

Institute a "living minimum wage" that is pegged to increase automatically with changes in cost of living and inflation.
Abolish the exploitative "Youth & Training Wage" which unfairly punishes workers.
Fight "right to work" laws at every opportunity, and stand by our labor unions.
Eradicate the gender wage gap.
Expand effective workforce development programs into our 7th District, like the Delaware Pathways to Apprenticeship (P2A). It can potentially connect our young people to the many years of building development that will happen on the 425-acre Claymont Steel site and the $380 million dollar investment in the Edgemoor Port.


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