Thread by @didikins4life

This week, House and Senate Democrats are unveiling two bold, ambitious, new planks of our A Better Deal agenda: A Better Deal for Our Teachers and Students, and A Better Deal for Our Democracy.1 #ABetterDeal #BlueWave2018 #DemPartyPlatform

Education is the catalyst for economic mobility, and the engine of progress in our nation. Yet, America’s teachers are underpaid, our schools are underfunded and our children are too often denied the good, public education they need to succeed. 2 #ABetterDeal #Education

Today, teacher’s wages are a full 17 percent lower than comparable workers – forcing nearly one in every five full-time teachers to work a second job to make ends meet. 3 #ABetterDeal #Education #Teachers #DemsWork4USA

Today, House and Senate #Democrats are unveiling A Better Deal for our Teachers and Students. We commit to: 4 #ABetterDeal #Education #Teachers #DemsWork4USA

Dedicating $50 billion to states and school districts to increase teacher pay, and recruit & retain a strong, diverse teacher workforce; 5 #ABetterDeal #Teachers #Education #DemsWork4USA

Establishing a new $50 billion fund for school infrastructure and resources; 6 #ABetterDeal #Teachers #Education #DemsWork4USA

Supporting Title I and ensuring all students can thrive, regardless of their zip code; 7 #ABetterDeal #EduPolicy #Education #DemsWork4USA

#ABetterDeal Defending teachers’ freedom to negotiate for better pay and working conditions and Meeting our responsibility to fund special education. 8 #DemsWork4USA #TEACHERS #edupolicy

While Republicans fight to slash teacher and school budgets, Democrats are proud to stand with America’s educators and make strong, smart investments in our schools and our children. 9 #ABetterDeal #Teachers #DemsWork4USA #edupolicy

Republicans have utterly broken their promises to fight for the forgotten American, instead rewarding the wealthy and well-connected at the expense of middle class and working families, 10

...undermining every American’s right to be heard at the ballot box and failing to protect our election systems from foreign and domestic attack. 11
#ProtectOurDemocracy #ABetterDeal #VotingRights

#Democrats are fighting to fix our broken political system and return to a government of, by and for the American people. Our Better Deal for Democracy will: 12
#ABetterDeal #ForAll #ProtectOurDemocracy

#Democrats will Empower the American voter to Demand Responsive Government – protecting every citizen’s right to vote, safeguarding our election infrastructure from hostile actors and putting an end to partisan redistricting; 13 #ABetterDeal #ForAll #BlueWave2018

#Democrats will Strengthen our Nation’s Ethics Laws to Fight Special Interests – ending the revolving door in Washington and reining in the influence of high-powered insiders, lobbyists, big-money donors and the special interests driving Washington’s agenda;14 #ABetterDeal

#Democrats will Fix our Broken Campaign Finance System to Combat Big Money Influence – breaking the stranglehold on our democracy by wealthy and well-connected campaign donors and ending the scourge of unaccountable “dark money” unleashed in our system by Citizens United. 15

The American people continue to be left behind by big money lobbyists’ stranglehold on the Republican agenda – footing the bill for a GOP tax scam that hands massive windfalls to big corporations, Wall Street and the wealthiest 1 percent, 16 #ABetterDeal #GOPTaxScam #

..and struggling with surging prescription drug costs because Republicans are too weak to confront Big Pharma’s outrageous price hikes and price gouging. The American people deserve #ABetterDeal.17 #ForAll #DemPartyPlatform

Read more about the #DemPartyPlatform here>> democrats.org/party-platform #ABetterDeal for American families, Workers and the middle-class/18 #BlueWave2018 #DemsWork4USA #ForAll