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<h4 style="text-align: center">Laura Benjamin Suspends Congressional Campaign for Wisconsin’s 3rd District</h4>September 26, 2025Eau Claire, WI — Today, Laura Benjamin announced the suspension of her campaign for Congress in Wisconsin’s 3rd District, citing the significant resources required to run a competitive race, while celebrating the progress her campaign has made in shaping the political conversation across the district.“From the very beginning, this campaign has been about everyday working people and moving toward bold, progressive solutions,” Benjamin said. “I’m proud that we’ve inspired new conversations among Democrats in WI-03 about the fight for economic and social justice.”Benjamin’s campaign helped generate direct action and mutual aid, including holding 3 town halls, building coalition to support immigrant families, and working alongside Larry Littlegeorge of the Ho-Chunk Nation to advance the Federation of Sovereign Nations of Wisconsin, a new effort to ensure Indigenous communities their rights.While suspending the campaign was not an easy decision, Benjamin acknowledged the reality of modern campaigning:“Running a congressional campaign across a district as large as WI-03 takes significant financial resources. Despite the incredible support we’ve received, the path to victory simply isn’t there without the level of fundraising required to reach voters. Rather than run a campaign without a viable path forward, I’ve made the difficult decision to suspend efforts at this time.”Benjamin emphasized that this decision marks a transition, not an ending:“The fight for Medicare for All, living wages, and guaranteed human rights does not stop here. I’m committed to being part of that effort moving forward, whether through grassroots advocacy, coalition work, or whatever comes next.”Benjamin expressed deep gratitude to her supporters:“To every volunteer, staffer, donor, and supporter who believed in this campaign: thank you. Together, we showed that ordinary people are excited for extraordinary progress. While this campaign is ending, the greater movement for justice and equality is only just beginning.”For future updates, please follow Laura Benjamin on your preferred social media platform, via <a href="http://linktr.ee/laurabenjamin">linktr.ee/laurabenjamin</a>. Media Contact:Laura Benjamin&nbsp; |&nbsp; 715-255-0122&nbsp; |&nbsp; <a href="mailto:info@laurabenjaminforcongress.com">info@laurabenjaminforcongress.com</a>

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A long-term Farm bill is needed to help support our regional farms. Tariffs and labor shortages from immigration policies have created economic uncertainty. And I look forward to being a part of community meetings in 2025 in order to understand how to best represent the needs of farms in our district. I support the following:<ul><li>Renewal of the 5-Year Farm Bill on schedule.<ul><li>This critical piece of legislation gives our agricultural workers a reliable plan for understanding crop insurance and commodity support programs to help stabilize operations.</li><li>The Farm Bill also helps rural communities understand what support will be provided by the Federal Government, what conservation programs will exist to help promote sustainable agriculture, and information about planned nutrition programs like SNAP to help farms better plan for the years ahead.&nbsp;</li><li>For these reasons it is vital to pass a 5-Year Farm Bill if one is not passed by 2027.</li></ul></li><li>Correct Beef Labeling. Current policy allows beef from China and Brazil to be imported and processed in the US, and then labeled/sold as “US Beef.” This is deceptive advertising and puts our rural family scale farms at a disadvantage. I support legislation that corrects this labeling practice, so that only beef raised in the US can be labeled as “US Beef.”</li><li>I support the S. 2338 bill, the Strengthening Local Food Security Act of 2025 as a replacement to the Local Food Purchase Assistance Program. The former LFPA program became a critical part of what makes family-scale farming work. This new program would be a potential long-term solution to small and mid-size farms providing direct-to-institution sales of agricultural produce in our region.</li><li>Provide a Year-Round Immigration Visa for Dairy Workers, along with a pathway to citizenship. Dairy in Wisconsin relies on this labor, and we can do our part by providing a safe and legal way for these people to come to the USA.</li><li>Balance immigration with Family-Scale Farm Subsidy. Industrial farms can utilize labor at a scale unavailable to smaller family-scale farms. We can help balance the survival of these critical farms through subsidies and insurance policies that help them compete and thrive.</li><li>Create regulation preventing mega-corporations from supply chain monopoly. Mega-corps are looking at ways to control the supply and delivery of agricultural products from DNA of seeds and cows all the way to the products on the shelf. This level of artificial control creates issues around reduced biodiversity and is anti-competitive for family scale farms.</li><li>Build policy for Supply-Side control for price stability in dairy. Following guidance of the Wisconsin Farmer’s Union and Dairy Together, market controls would be enacted to eliminate the boom-and-bust cycle of dairy farming and enable family scale dairy farms to better remain viable and competitive.</li><li>I will favor policy that prioritizes the small- and mid-size farms that are critical to our communities, instead of prioritizing large corporate farms, such as subsidies to provide relief for labor shortages on farms and to help reduce the impacts of tariffs.</li></ul>

A long-term Farm bill is needed to help support our regional farms. Tariffs and labor shortages from immigration policies have created economic uncertainty.

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Come meet me, Laura Benjamin, at my campaign kickoff.We're doing something a little different for this event. After my intro, I'll be inviting you, the public, to speak for up to 3 minutes. Tell me what's on your mind, your concerns for the district and the country, or ask me a question.Because it’s time our leaders listened.<a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/laura-benjamin-town-hall-open-mic-and-campaign-kickoff-tickets-1330953631139?aff=oddtdtcreator" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Register to attend</a>

American students continue to fall behind international standards, due in part to funding plans that create haves and have-nots, and punishing struggling schools with funding reductions.Furthermore, a college education (a requirement for many information-era jobs) continues to get more expensive and requires many students to take on obscene amounts of debt in order to complete degrees. For this reason I support educational access and improvement through the following policy:<ul><li>Reform the Department of Education to be able to provide funding and staff that will work hands-on to improve underserved schools rather than penalizing them by reducing funding.</li><li>Fully fund 3K and 4K programs nationwide so that young children have access to early education opportunities.</li><li>Eliminate the school voucher program. One of the first pieces of legislation I plan to work on would be in an effort to ban vouchers. Private, charter and homeschooling are valid choices, but not at the expense of our public schools, and I strongly oppose efforts to build a national student voucher program, such as the recent Educational Choice for Children Act (ECCA).</li><li>Free nutritional breakfast and lunch for all children. No child anywhere in America should have to suffer or go hungry at school, for any reason.</li><li>Make public In-State college tuition free</li><li>Support of teachers rights to unionize, collectively bargain, and strike when necessary.</li><li>Cap public and private student loan interest rates at 5%, period. No business should be able to exploit huge profits at the expense of hardworking students, and students should not face a lifetime of debt from their schooling.</li></ul>Though it is not part of a House Rep's role, I support the Senate only confirming Secretary of Education candidates who have extensive education system experience and/or advanced degrees in education.

American students continue to fall behind international standards, due in part to funding plans that create haves and have-nots, punishing struggling schools with funding reductions, and the expense of college education. Let's change that.

Education Equality & Expansion

Humans exist in a variety of ways, and all people are entitled to human rights, including marriage equality, the rights to bodily autonomy and healthcare, and civil liberties for BIPOC and LBGTQ+ people.Diversity is our strength. We are not all the same, and that's a good thing. I believe:<ul><li>We must codify the Equal Rights Amendment as the 28th Amendment to the US Constitution</li><li>Women have a right to make medical decisions about their bodies with their doctors. The rights and lives of women matter, and we cannot permit the reduction of anyone's personhood to being a forced birther.</li><li>Two non-related, consenting adults, have the right to marry and start a family, regardless of the gender or birth sex of either adult.</li><li>BIPOC people have been the subject of generational discrimination, including slavery, segregation, redlining, and reduced opportunity. The ongoing effects of those policies persist to this day. For this reason, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility programs should be reinstated. These programs provide the greatest opportunity for all Americans.</li><li>LGBTQ+ people, particularly transgender Americans, have been the subject of extreme discrimination and Executive Orders designed to support the legal annihilation of an entire minority group of people. Medical research and historical evidence has proven that being Transgender is not a choice or preference, it is a deeply rooted part of who these people are, and is a natural and normal way to be human. I support policies that protect LGBTQ+ people, and that enable them to have the same rights to marriage, adoption, and family as all other Americans. I support policies that protect rights for Transgender people to exist in public spaces, utilize the bathroom corresponding to their gender identity, and transition from their assigned-at-birth gender to the gender with which they identify.</li></ul>

Humans exist in a variety of ways, and all people are entitled to human rights, including marriage equality, the rights to bodily autonomy and healthcare, and civil liberties for BIPOC and LBGTQ+ people.Diversity is our strength. We are not all the same, and that's a good thing.

Equal Rights for All Americans

First-time home buyers are struggling to find affordable houses. The skyrocketing cost of living means that unexpected bills can turn into ballooning debt. Younger generations are being squeezed like never before.Better policy can fix this and make America work for everyday Americans again.<ul><li>Support a living wage standard throughout the US within Metropolitan Statistical Areas and Regional Rural Areas. The Department of Labor reviews cost of living metrics - housing, healthcare, food, transportation, daycare - and sets a new wage floor so that a modest lifestyle is available to those in each MSA/RRA for anyone working 40 hours per week.</li><li>Work to ease homebuying conditions by imposing scaling tax penalties on businesses and individuals who purchase and utilize single-family homes for rentals. The more homes in their portfolio, the higher the penalty.</li><li>I support the START Housing Act of 2025 (HR 1231) which is aimed at incentivizing building new modest single-family homes for first-time buyers, as well as tax credits for building new “starter home” inventory (800-1800 sf)</li><li>I support the $15,000 First-Time Homebuyer Tax Credit Act to help new homeowners purchase a home and begin building equity.</li><li>Explore additional policy decisions based on the recommendations from the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Joint Task Force studying reducing housing costs.</li><li>I support efforts like the Affordable Loans for Students Act of 2025 (HR 2003) aimed at retroactively capping student loan interest and improving options for consolidation and refinancing, </li><li>Student Loan Forgiveness should be reinstated. We’ve bailed out too many corporations to count, and it’s time everyday people had a helping hand.</li><li>I support the Senate’s 10% Credit Card Interest Rate Cap Act (S.381), a bipartisan effort to cap credit card APRs at 10% for five years and help people escape debt.</li></ul>While consumer prices may never deflate, I will generally look to support policies that elevate the living wages of Americans to better enable them to adjust to the new higher prices experienced in the market, prevent price gouging, and help prevent Americans from falling into extreme debt.

First-time home buyers are struggling to find affordable houses. The skyrocketing cost of living means that unexpected bills can turn into ballooning debt. Younger generations are being squeezed like never before.Better policy can fix this and make America work for everyday Americans again.

Personal Debt, Housing & Affordability Crisis

It is time for the United States to join every other advanced democracy and recognize that healthcare is a human right, and that allowing the profit motive in healthcare leads to inverse incentives.Negative outcomes of US private health insurance include worse healthcare outcomes, a less healthy population through delayed treatment, and massive medical debt in exchange for life-saving treatment. Putting profit first in healthcare also incentivizes lack of price transparency and price gouging.No person should go into immense debt to fight cancer or other major medical conditions. Thousands of Americans choose to forgo care or even die from not receiving needed healthcare for fear of, or sheer unaffordability of, the immense cost.For pharmaceuticals, corporations continue to price gouge patients, charging hundreds or thousands for necessary life-sustaining and life-saving medicines.Furthermore, healthcare in the US is unfairly tied to employment, removing access to care or creating an impossible expense for those between jobs or seeking work. For these reasons, I support the following policy:<ul><li>Medicare for All: Pass the Medicare for All Act, ensuring all Americans have access to healthcare free of copays and surprise bills.</li><li>Phase-out of private sector insurance plans</li><li>Regulation on the cost of life-saving medications, including making insulin free</li><li>Regulation to give the government more room to negotiate for American taxpayers on the cost of medical care and prescription medication</li></ul>

It is time for the United States to join every other advanced democracy and recognize that healthcare is a human right, and that allowing profit to drive healthcare decisions leads to inverse incentives and worse outcomes.

Medicare for All &amp; Affordable Prescriptions

I'll be on with Pat Kreitlow this upcoming Monday, May 5th at 7:30 AM, on his Mornings with Pat Kreitlow show.Find your <a href="https://civicmedia.us/stations" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Civic Media</a> station for over-the-air radio, or <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VP-Ooodi2RM&amp;t=5680s" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">watch the live stream</a>.Looking forward to a great conversation!

Mornings with Pat Kreitlow Appearance

Bound to Happen Books in Stevens Point is hosting me from 5:30-6:30 on Friday 6/27 for a meet and greet and fundraising event.If you’re in Portage or Wood County, we’d love to see you there. Doors at 5, I’ll speak at 5:30, and we’ll have a "get to know" Q&amp;A to follow.

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Unchecked money being allowed in political races creates incentives for bad behavior, where national politicians favor corporate interests, lobbyists, and the wealthy over the interests of the people they are supposed to serve. For this reason, I support creation of an even playing field that better incentivizes serving constituents, and gives everyday Americans who wish to financially support political candidates through the following policy:<ul><li>Reverse the Citizens United ruling through legislation in the short term</li><li>Propose a constitutional amendment affirming that corporations are not people</li><li>Eliminate corporate giving in campaign finance</li><li>Eliminate or heavily regulate PACs and dark money in politics</li><li>Cap maximum individual gifts at $1,500 for primary and general elections so donations from average Americans have a greater impact in campaign funding</li></ul>

Unchecked money being allowed in political races creates incentives for bad behavior, where national politicians favor corporate interests, lobbyists, and the wealthy over the interests of everyday working Americans.

Campaign Finance Reform

We must address gun violence in America. Firearms are now the leading cause of death for children and teens in the United States, surpassing motor vehicle accidents for the last five years.This is not a Second Amendment issue. Here in Wisconsin’s 3rd District, hunting is part of the culture, and I am for responsible gun ownership. What needs attention is the safety of our children and everyday people. For that reason I support:<ul><li>Expanded background checks when purchasing firearms</li><li>A ban on assault weapons sales</li><li>Enact Federal Child Access Prevention laws that create liability for children gaining access to firearms.</li></ul>

We must address gun violence in America. Firearms are now the leading cause of death for children and teens in the United States, surpassing motor vehicle accidents for the last five years.

Ending Gun Violence

Since the 1980s, tax reduction benefits have gone disproportionately to the wealthiest Americans and corporations, forcing working and middle class families to bear a greater share of the tax burden.Major tax reform is needed to make the wealthy and corporations fund a society that works for us all.Under FDR and Eisenhower policies, top marginal tax rates were as high as 90% for top earners - and our economy saw 30 years of incredible growth for the middle class and working families. And those top earners still earned enough after taxes to be incredibly wealthy.In order to return prosperity to the vast majority of people of the United States, I support the following policy:<ul><li>Reduce the marginal tax rate of the lowest 5 tax brackets (for people earning less than $243,725) and eliminate income tax for anyone making under $60,000.</li><li>Create several new marginal tax brackets, including a 90% tax rate on earnings over $2,500,000</li><li>Increase the corporate tax rate to 35-50% for the largest mega-corporations</li><li>Create tax exemptions for SBA-classified “Small Businesses” (ranging from $1M-$40M in revenue or from 100-1,500 employees, with some variation in different industries.)</li><li>Direct the Department of the Treasury and the Congressional Budget Office to develop marginal tax brackets for the top .01%: people with net worth over $50M to tax calculated asset value growth of unrealized gains, from 2% at the low end up to 70% for those who exceed $100B. A structured tax like this has the potential to recapture revenue from excessively wealthy people who avoid paying their fair share: most mega-rich people in the United States pay an effective 1-4% tax rate.</li><li>Tax penalties on companies using profits for stock buybacks rather than worker wage increases</li><li>Tax penalties on corporations where executive staff are compensated at a rate higher than 10x the median employee’s wages.</li><li>I do not support current efforts to repeal the Estate Tax (aka the "Death Tax Repeal Act"). This legislation, introduced in 2025, is one of the few anti-austerity measures in our tax code. Fewer than 0.1% of all estates are subject to the estate tax, and it is a way to prevent wealthy families from continuing to maintain excessive wealth and influence across generations.</li></ul>

Since the 1980s, tax reduction benefits have gone disproportionately to the wealthiest Americans and corporations, forcing working and middle class families to bear a greater share of the tax burden.Major tax reform is needed to make the wealthy and corporations fund a society that works for us all, if they are going to continue to exploit people, resources, and the environment for profit.

Tax Reform: How We Rebuild the Middle Class

Some elected officials demonstrate a greater capacity of priority toward wealthy donors, lobbyists, and special interest groups over the concerns and needs of everyday Americans. We also need term limits in order to bring innovative ideas to the government with each new generation. And there are too many doubts about Congressional access to insider information in making their investment decisions.In addition to Campaign Finance Reform in an effort to reduce time by Congressional members spending time fundraising instead of serving constituents, I support the following:<ul><li>Term limits on all congressional members as follows:&nbsp;<ul><li>12 years / 6 terms for members of the House of Representatives</li><li>18 years / 3 terms for members of the Senate</li></ul></li><li>Term limits of 10 years for Supreme Court Justices</li><li>A 10 year ban on Federal employees becoming lobbyists following the end of their employment or term</li><li>Passage of the TRUST in Congress Act (H.R. 396) requiring Congress members, spouses, and dependents to invest through a blind trust. No elected official should be able to use inside information to profit from stock trading.</li><li>No more "PAY TO PLAY" leadership! Regulations on members of Congress, the Executive, and the Judiciary receiving gifts or special perks from special interest groups and donors while in office, with penalties up to and including removal from office and criminal charges.</li><li>Regulations on corporate lobbyists and interest groups to reduce their outsized influence on politics over the voices of everyday Americans</li><li>A No Kings policy that criminalizes actions of Presidents and members of their Cabinet who violate the Constitution of the United States in defiance of Congressional and Judicial checks.</li></ul>Furthermore, though it is not part of the House's responsibility, I support making every effort possible to support State and Federal Departments of Justice to pursue criminal complaints against PACS and individuals engaged in election bribery to ensure free and fair elections. We MUST fight corruption, wherever it occurs, if our government is to be trusted again.

Some elected officials demonstrate favoritism toward wealthy donors, lobbyists, and special interest groups over the concerns and needs of everyday Americans. Term limits and the TRUST in Congress Act are also critical to restoring a government we can believe in.

Restore Trust in Government

I an in favor of ending continued military support of Israel: weapons being provided by the United States are being used in an active genocide against the Palestinian people. In addition to an immediate halt to weapons provision, I support a trade embargo if further harm to Palestinian civilians continues.A two-state solution is necessary, with Palestine being granted the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem, and UN control over the divided Jerusalem. Furthermore, AIPAC must be made to register as a foreign lobby in the US. AIPAC operates with too much power and influence in both the Republican and Democratic Parties, and must be reigned in.

I an in favor of ending continued military support of Israel: weapons being provided by the United States are being used in an active genocide against the Palestinian people. In addition to an immediate halt to weapons provision, I support a trade embargo if further harm to Palestinian civilians continues.

Israel & Palestine

On June 18, I'll be in Grant County for the Democratic Party Annual Picnic - and I'll be speaking at this event!

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Mental health care continues to be a critical need for veterans. VA services can take a good deal of time to connect with, causing delays in critical care. And homelessness and economic instability is a concern.While my views are still evolving as I listen to veterans and research the most critical needs, I support:<ul><li>Funding healthcare, mental health, and suicide prevention programs for veterans</li><li>Funding and staffing the VA for more timely access to needed services</li></ul>

Mental health care continues to be a critical need for veterans. VA services can take a good deal of time to connect with, causing delays in critical care. And homelessness and economic instability is a concern.

Veteran Services

Issues surrounding our shared online spaces evolve quickly. New technologies like AI are developed every few years, and social media networks continually shift and evolve. Bitcoin and digital currencies continue to be a hot topic.Tracking and advertising technology has advanced to widespread use across media, and people are facing more and more targeted advertisements based on collected data. Corporations have a much easier time placing ads for users most receptive to ad messages, and have used profiling to manipulate everything from consumer behavior and ideological beliefs. I support:<ul><li>Requiring informed cookie and user consent to be tracked for all websites engaged in profiling.</li><li>Requiring all digital platforms to provide an easy option for users to opt out of tracking.</li></ul>Years back, Net Neutrality was a hot topic - that all data on the internet must be considered equal, and that Internet Service Providers (ISPs) couldn't treat data from different apps, sites, or services differently. Over the last 15 years, rules have fluctuated depending on the political leanings of the FCC Chairperson. With the future of our economy relying so heavily on internet communications, we will benefit by ensuring fair play and consistency in Net Neutrality rules, so I support:<ul><li>Affirming Net Neutrality with Federal legislation modeled after the California Internet Consumer Protection and Net Neutrality Act of 2018</li></ul>Digital online goods and services are now part of our daily life. Corporations sell digital goods, such as movies, video games, or TV shows, for “purchase” or “sale,” when Terms of Service indicate that the user’s purchase is not truly a sale and is instead revocable in the future by the vendor.&nbsp;Such companies may also remove cancellation options from online portals, forcing users to “call to cancel,” wasting consumers’ time or forcing them to pay additional renewal fees for not cancelling a service in time. I would seek to use the following policy to put an end to these dishonest practices:<ul><li>Require sellers of digital goods to clearly state whether an item is a permanent purchase or revocable digital license at point of sale</li><li>Require subscription service providers to provide an obvious method to cancel service through their online account, and not force users to call.</li></ul>The emergence of Bitcoin as a unique, decentralized store of value over the last 15 years can't be ignored. This public-owned technology represents a way for anyone to self-custody funds without risk from a secondary party. It's been added to countless portfolios worldwide, including the State of Wisconsin's pension fund, and leaders around the world are showing interest in Bitcoin as part of strategic asset reserves. I support the following:<ul><li>Pass the BITCOIN Act of 2025 for the US to acquire 5% of the total Bitcoin supply, demonstrating American leadership in adapting this technology</li><li>Initiatives that support Green Bitcoin Mining using renewable energy rather than fossil fuels, so we can utilize this technology in balance with climate initiatives.</li><li>Federally recognize Bitcoin as a unique digital commodity</li></ul>With the emergence of Bitcoin, other cryptocurrency tokens have also been developed using Bitcoin as a model. However, these tokens are privately owned by corporations, and are abused for digital financial scams. For those reasons, non-Bitcoin cryptocurrencies must be subject to higher scrutiny and regulation, and I support the following approach:<ul><li>No recognition of other cryptocurrencies as stores of value, due to centralization and corporate ownership</li><li>Create legislation aimed at ending predatory behavior of of social media "influencers" who scam their audiences through digital token sales and "rug pull" schemes</li></ul>

Issues surrounding our shared online spaces evolve quickly. New technologies like AI are developed every few years, and social media networks continually shift and evolve. Bitcoin and digital currencies continue to be a hot topic. Let's make plans for our digital futures.

Privacy, Bitcoin, and our Digital Futures

Every American working a job is entitled to earn a wage that will enable them to afford a reasonable standard of living. In addition, all employees in the public and private sectors must be able to unionize and utilize collective bargaining to ensure fairness in wages and benefits. For this reason, I support prioritizing working Americans through the following policy:<ul><li>Support a living wage standard throughout the US within Metropolitan Statistical Areas and Regional Rural Areas. The Department of Labor reviews cost of living metrics - housing, healthcare, food, transportation, daycare - and sets a new wage floor so that a modest lifestyle is available to those in each MSA/RRA for anyone working 40 hours per week. </li><li>Supporting the Department of Labor through better funding, and increasing their ability for impact:<ul><li>Reinstate the Trade Adjusted Assistance program targeting jobs lost to automation and AI</li><li>Expand the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act to help workers in declining industries retrain, and work with State programs to build greater consistency and standardization modeling on those programs which are most successful.</li><li>Increased funding will also allow for greater reach into rural areas, so less workers will fall through the cracks.</li></ul></li><li>Better support and protection of union members rights: collective bargaining and right to strike.</li><li>Impose higher taxes on corporations where executive staff are compensated at a rate higher than 10x the median employee’s wages.</li><li>Guarantee the same benefits that other advanced economies have access to, including:<ul><li>Paid leave for new parents, both moms and dads</li><li>Free and reduced-cost daycare through subsidy</li></ul></li></ul>

Every American working a job is entitled to earn a wage that will enable them to afford a reasonable standard of living. In addition, all employees in the public and private sectors must be able to unionize and utilize collective bargaining to ensure fairness in wages and benefits.

Labor Rights & Living Wages

Environmental protection is about our health - both today and into the future. And there's also an economic reason to create regulation: permitting corporations to pollute creates additional cost burden on the public. Corporations should not be permitted to damage our waterways through CAFOS, PFAS dumping and large-scale nitrate pollution. We need to take care to protect drinking water in all our communities, and we cannot permit businesses to pass the cost of cleaning up after them onto us when they create environmental issues.I support the following environmental policy:<ul><li>The Green New Deal policy framework to work toward climate action, economic justice, and nationwide infrastructure investment, as well as specific initiatives including:<ul><li>The 2023 Green New Deal for Public Schools Act, to retrofit public schools with renewable energy and modernize HVAC, particularly in rural/underserved areas</li><li>The 2021 Green New Deal for Public Housing Act, to similarly retrofit public housing with solar panels and energy efficient appliances</li><li>The 2021 Green New Deal for Cities Act, to enable local communities to prioritize and undertake projects in transit, housing, and water system upgrades</li><li>The 2021 Civilian Climate Corps for Jobs &amp; Justice Act, creating 1.5 million new clean energy and environmental remediation jobs</li></ul></li><li>An easier path to forcing polluters to take fiscal responsibility and pay to clean up chemical pollutants such as PFAS and nitrates.</li><li>Improved regulation on businesses that seek to shift costs of proper waste disposal onto populations of the region.</li></ul>

Environmental protection is about our health - both today and into the future. And we cannot permit businesses to pass the expense of proper cleanup onto the people of our state.

Environmental Protections

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Laura Benjamin, business owner and former member of Eau Claire City Council, today announced her intention to run for Wisconsin's 3rd Congressional District.“I’m running because our district - and our country - deserves better than corporate giveaways, constitutional violations, and a representative who’s asleep at the wheel while working families suffer," she said in a statement.She looks forward to meeting with people district-wide, and building a united vision for Wisconsin and the US.

Laura Benjamin files candidacy for WI-03

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Over the last 45 years, the Democratic party has continually moved to the political Right, favoring the rights of corporations and monied interests instead of prioritizing the rights of workers, families, and diverse people.As a result, the vast majority of Americans have become disillusioned with politics and disenfranchised as they don't feel they are benefiting from policy.Therefore, I support the following:<ul><li>Promotion and passage of legislation that serves the common good of all American people - policies that support working people, families, and are inclusive of minority identities</li><li>Rejection of legislation that further empowers billionaires, corporations, or disparagingly segregates any minority group</li><li>I will refuse campaign donations from mega-corporations or billionaires</li></ul>

Over the last 45 years, the Democratic party has continually moved to the political Right, favoring the rights of corporations and monied interests instead of prioritizing the rights of workers, families, and diverse people.More and more Americans have become disillusioned with politics as they don't feel they're benefiting from policy. Let's fix that.

Democrats for Labor, Families, and Progress

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These three American institutions are under attack every day, and are necessary safety nets for our citizens. I support moving to Medicare for all, as well as expanding Social Security and preserving Medicaid.I also support the following policy:<ul><li>Remove the wage base cap on Social Security. Earnings of more than $176,100 are not subject to Social Security tax, meaning someone who earns $1 Million pays the same amount into Social Security as someone who earns $176,100. Instead, the person paying in should pay the full 6.2% (or 12.4% for self-employed individuals) into Social Security to ensure the program is funded for future generations.</li></ul>

These three American institutions are under attack every day, and are necessary safety nets for our citizens. I support moving to Medicare for all, as well as expanding Social Security and preserving Medicaid.

Protect Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid

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