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Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for Governor, said tonight at the first Gubernatorial debate that state must focus more on providing jobs to all New Yorkers while protecting the environment and providing a quality education. (View the debate at News12.com)
Hawkins also said that he hoped that this would be the first of several debates involving all the candidates. Hawkins has agreed to participate in upcoming debates in Syracuse and Rochester, and we welcome the opportunity to participate in a proposed Oct. 28 debate in Buffalo.
Hawkins’ Green New Deal echoes former New York Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s call for a bill of economic rights which included the right to a living wage jobs, education and health care for all Americans. Hawkins supports a state single payer health care system similar to Medicare that saves New Yorkers an estimated $28 billion annually by 2019 according to a recent state study.
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