IL-14: Lauren Underwood Announces Women’s Economic Agenda

Congresswoman Lauren Underwood

Gearing up for her 2020 reelection campaign, Underwood touts her agenda and targets suburban women

As revealed when she spoke at the City Club of Chicago last week, Congresswoman Lauren Underwood unveiled her “Women’s Economic Agenda”.

On Friday, Underwood unveiled the agenda through a press release, from Congresswoman Lauren Underwood:

UNDERWOOD UNVEILS NEW ECONOMIC AGENDA TO STRENGTHEN SUPPORT FOR WOMEN

February 28, 2020 Press Release

WASHINGTON— Today, Congresswoman Lauren Underwood (IL-14) introduced her new women’s economic agenda to ensure equal opportunity, support, and security for women. Underwood’s agenda includes steps Congress should take to improve health care for women, enhance educational opportunities, promote workplace equality, support families, and ensure stability for secure retirements.

“American women are barrier breakers. We have shattered glass ceilings in education, at work, in the law, the military, and at home.

Women are leading in new ways, so it’s crucial we provide women with the resources they need to ensure their success.

“My agenda is a smart step forward toward providing secure economic futures for Illinois women.”

Lauren Underwood, 2/28/20
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A one pager of Underwood’s agenda can be found here.

Representative Lauren Underwood’s Women’s Economic Agenda

1. Health Care that Works for Women

Ensuring that all women have quality, affordable health care

  • Protect coverage for pre-existing conditions and essential health benefits like maternity care and contraception by enacting my legislation to protect the Affordable Care Act and ban junk insurance plans.
  • Reduce premiums and out-of-pocket costs by passing my legislation: the Health Care Affordability Act, the Chronic Condition Copay Elimination Act, the Primary and Behavioral Health Care Access Act, the Lower Insulin Costs Now Act, and the Veterans Preventive Health Coverage Fairness Act.
  • Defend access to reproductive health care by repealing the Hyde Amendment and passing my Access to Contraception Expansion for Veterans Act.

2. Education for the Future

Ensuring women can invest in their futures through education and training

  • Make college more affordable and address the student debt crisis by passing the College Affordability Act and my File Once FAFSA Act.
  • Expand STEM education and career training for girls and women.
  • Support public school teachers by passing my Teachers are Leaders Act.
  • Help communities invest in public schools by enacting my legislation to repeal the cap on State and Local Tax (SALT) deductions.

3. Equality in the Workplace

Ensuring women have equal opportunity to thrive in the workplace and grow their careers

  • Close the gender pay gap by enacting the Paycheck Fairness Act.
  • Stop workplace harassment and discrimination by passing my bipartisan EMPOWER Act.
  • Protect pregnant women at their jobs by passing the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act.
  • Guarantee equal treatment for women under the law by ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution.

4. Empowering Every Family

Ensuring all families can thrive with access to affordable childcare and paid family leave to care for a new child or sick family member

  • Guarantee paid family, medical, and sick leave for every worker by passing the FAMILY Act and the Healthy Families Act.
  • Support women caring for aging parents and family members, and expand job protections under the Family and Medical Leave Act.
  • Protect the rights of LGBTQ families by enacting the Equality Act.
  • Expand access to high-quality, affordable childcare by passing the Child Care for Working Families Act.

5. Financial Stability and a Secure Retirement

Ensuring that women have economic opportunity and security in retirement and housing

  • Close the retirement savings gender gap by implementing the SECURE Act and passing my Women’s Retirement Protection Act.
  • Invest in our suburban communities by tackling the housing affordability crisis for both renters and homeowners.
  • Defend and expand earned Social Security and Medicare benefits.

Comments

IL-14: Lauren Underwood Announces Women’s Economic Agenda — 12 Comments

  1. Equality Act calls for mainstreaming psycho transgenders and making us pay for their mental disorders

  2. Wow. What a refreshing example of what a great Representative does when serving her District.

    Keep on rocking Lauren.

  3. I’ve been paying for every butthurt Democrat Social Engineering program since LBJ’s ‘Great Society’.

    What’s one more to toss in, when your talking a landfill of garbage Legislation?

  4. An old fashioned outline of nice sounding topics and without substance. For example, “Make college more affordable”.

    What specifically would Lauren do about this? Would she and her fellow Democrats have hearings in Congress and ask college/university leaders to explain their high costs as well as what they are doing about outrageously high salaries of staffs? Would she ask the college leaders to have 5, 10, 20 year long range plans to at first plateau tuitions and then every year cut tuitions by substantial amounts? Would she ask college leaders about what are frivolous programs and costs and what could be eliminated?

  5. Fake nurse, real socialist – soon to be GONE.

    Perhaps Barry will take pity upon Underwood and

    employ her as a maid in his new multimillion dollar estate, her first real job ever.

  6. Socialist Gibberish..no meat, substance, real follow up, just all nice sounding talking points and an excuse to do Death by PowerPoint to the unsuspecting.

    White Man bad, Free stuff, someone else pays, normal claptrap.

    And whats with the word “Resist” in the saying “Join, Act, Vote” placard Underwood is speaking behind?

    Resist what, and Resist how?

    She calling for Bernie Bros, Antifa Style “Resist” with that stuff?

    Was that her folks that marked up the Trump Billboard on Route 14 with bad words in spray paint?

    That kind of “Resist” Underwood?

  7. ** For example, “Make college more affordable”. What specifically would Lauren do about this? **

    You do know that she specifically said what she’d do about it in the second half of the sentence, right?

  8. Per:
    As I posted earlier, Underwood does NOTHING to lower college tuition. She does not have anything to get at the root causes. She actually would worsen the situation with her College Affordability act. See article per Heritage:

    https://www.heritage.org/education/report/the-college-affordability-act-unaffordable

    “The proposed College Affordability Act calls for a massive uptick in federal spending on higher education and increased access to federal student aid (which has been shown to inflate tuition), while easing the criteria for federal loan forgiveness, leaving the bill to American taxpayers. Americans need solutions that will drive down the price of college, hold universities accountable for the quality of the education that they offer, and bolster career and technical education options. The College Affordability Act accomplishes none of these goals.”

  9. I’m shocked – SHOCKED – that the Heritage Foundation would be opposed to government spending on something.

    But, to my point, she literally said what she was going to do, and then you asked what she would do. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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