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Focus: Economy

By New Media Dept. - Nov 2nd, 2008 at 6:46 pm EST

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Latino families have been disproportionally affected by the recent economic downturn and housing crisis. Senator Barack Obama’s economic plan includes measures to help Latino families by offering a middle-class tax cut three times the size of John McCain’s. The Obama-Biden economic plan also promotes job creation by offering tax credits to startups and small businesses that create good jobs in the United States. The economic plan includes a number of specific proposals that fall into three main areas:

Tax Relief for Working Families

Obama and Biden will restore fairness to the tax code and provide 95 percent of working Americans the tax relief they need. They will create a new "Making Work Pay" tax credit of up to $500 per person, or $1,000 per working family.

Tax Relief for Small Businesses and Startups

Obama and Biden will eliminate all capital gains taxes on startup and small businesses to encourage innovation and job creation.

Fight for Fair Trade

Obama and Biden will fight for a trade policy that opens up foreign markets to support good American jobs. They will use trade agreements to spread good labor and environmental standards around the world.

In this video, Senator Barack Obama talks about several aspects of his economic plan:

Read more about the Obama-Biden economic plan. You can also read the Obama-Biden plan for small businesses, the plan to protect homeowners, or view a side-by-side comparison of the candidate’s economic plans.

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Hello All,

Happy New Years! This is really going to be a great year let's tell our new President Barack Obama what we plan to do to help make life better for all women and girls all over the world.

Start by telling the President what you need and what you can give to make all this happen. Women are the key to making a lot of the changes happen so let the President hear from you through this blog or you can post a note on the Barack Women-Eye Global Sisterhood or www.womeneye.org This is our world let's save it.

Who can say no to one million women? What we need is jobs, health care, education and to be able to do business with each other. This will bring peace and love to the whole world

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