Presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) took questions from teachers and other AFT members and leaders at an AFT Votes town hall May 13, describing her plans to lift up working families, make college affordable, cancel existing student debt, provide universal child care and preschool, raise the wages of preschool teachers and child care workers, and create a wealth tax to pay for it all.
AFT President Randi Weingarten introduced Warren, praising her record as a former public school teacher, attorney, professor and founder of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and noting that she has long been “a friend of students and educators and nurses” and steadfastly “on the side of the vulnerable and … those who don’t have power.” Joking that “she has a plan for everything,” a reference to Warren’s reputation for backing up her rhetoric with specific policy proposals, Weingarten paved the way for Warren to describe some of those plans.
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