{"id":259778,"date":"2016-08-03T16:09:12","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T16:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/can-jill-carry-bernies-baton-a-look-at-the-green-candidates-radical-funding-solution\/"},"modified":"2016-08-03T16:09:12","modified_gmt":"2016-08-03T16:09:12","slug":"can-jill-carry-bernies-baton-a-look-at-the-green-candidates-radical-funding-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/can-jill-carry-bernies-baton-a-look-at-the-green-candidates-radical-funding-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Jill Carry Bernie\u2019s Baton? A Look at the Green Candidate\u2019s Radical Funding Solution"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bernie Sanders supporters are flocking to Jill Stein, the presumptive Green Party presidential candidate, with donations to her campaign exploding nearly 1000%<\/a> after he endorsed Hillary Clinton. Stein salutes Sanders for the progressive populist movement he began and says it is up to her to carry the baton. Can she do it? Critics say her radical policies will not hold up to scrutiny. But supporters say they are just the medicine the economy needs.<\/p>\n

Stein goes even further than Sanders on several key issues, and one of them is her economic platform. She has proposed a \u201cPower to the People Plan<\/a>\u201d that guarantees basic economic human rights, including access to food, water, housing, and utilities; living-wage jobs for every American who needs to work; an improved \u201cMedicare for All\u201d single-payer public health insurance program; tuition-free public education through university level; and the abolition of student debt. She also supports a basic income guarantee<\/a>; the reinstatement of Glass-Steagall<\/a>, separating depository banking from speculative investment banking; the breakup of megabanks into smaller banks; federal postal banks to service the unbanked and under-banked; and the formation of publicly-owned banks at the state and local level.<\/p>\n

As with Sanders\u2019 economic proposals, her plan has been challenged as unrealistic. Where will Congress find the money?<\/p>\n

But Stein argues that the funds can be found. Going beyond Bernie, she calls for large cuts to the bloated military…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Bernie Sanders supporters are flocking to Jill Stein, the presumptive Green Party presidential candidate, with donations to her campaign exploding nearly 1000% after he endorsed Hillary Clinton. Stein salutes Sanders for the progressive populist movement he began and says it is up to her to carry the baton. Can she do it? Critics say her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-259778","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}