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Jan Schakowsky
American
Politician
Born:
May 26
,
1944
Care
Country
Health
Will
Women
Work
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The rise of franchising, contracting, and other similar employment practices has made it harder to enforce worker protections like minimum wages, overtime pay, and the right to unionize.
Jan Schakowsky
Made
Overtime
Pay
Other
Minimum
Rise
Similar
Like
Employment
Practices
Wages
Contracting
Enforce
Worker
Harder
Right
Higher wages for American workers are not just good for American families, they are good for our economy. I will keep fighting for a raise for hard working Americans so our families can afford housing, help their children get a quality education, and secure a good retirement.
Jan Schakowsky
Education
Good
Quality
Will
Fighting
Our
Secure
Higher
Retirement
Economy
Quality Education
Housing
Wages
Families
Afford
Get
American
Just
Children
American Families
Workers
Working
Hard
Help
American Workers
Hard-Working
Keep
Raise
Immigration reform is for those thousands of people in my district and the millions of people across the country who want nothing more than to work hard, provide for their families, and reach for the American Dream.
Jan Schakowsky
Work
People
Work Hard
Immigration
Country
Nothing
Those
Dream
Immigration Reform
Thousands
Thousands Of People
District
More
Reach
Provide
Families
Than
Reform
American
American Dream
Want
Across
Hard
Who
Millions
Millions Of People
Jackie Berman, a 64-year-old widow and former special education teacher from Chicago, enrolled in Obamacare. She really needed coverage after sustaining serious injuries from being hit by a car. Now Jackie gets the care she needs at an affordable rate.
Jan Schakowsky
Education
Teacher
Needs
Car
Care
Enrolled
Obamacare
Rate
She
Coverage
Chicago
Hit
Affordable
Jackie
Gets
Being
After
Sustaining
Former
Really
Special
Special Education
Serious
Now
Injuries
Widow
Needed
Making sure women get equal pay for equal work remains one of my top priorities.
Jan Schakowsky
Work
Women
Pay
Top
Remains
Equal
Equal Pay
Equal Work
Sure
Priorities
Making
Get
I've seen the impact of deportation in my district. It is heartbreaking to see families torn apart for no good reason.
Jan Schakowsky
Good
Seen
Torn
District
See
Impact
Good Reason
Heartbreaking
Families
Deportation
Apart
Reason
Your health benefits are not a gift - you work hard for them every day.
Jan Schakowsky
Work
Health
Day
You
Every Day
Work Hard
Benefits
Gift
Every
Health Benefits
Them
Your
Hard
Memorial Day is all about celebrating the lives of the men and women who paid the ultimate sacrifice in service to our country. The United States is made great because of their heroism. Their lives are remembered, honored, and celebrated by all of us, including the friends, family, and fellow service members who knew them best.
Jan Schakowsky
Service
Best
Day
Great
Family
Women
Made
Men
Men And Women
Sacrifice
Country
Heroism
Our
Honored
States
Members
Memorial
About
Remembered
Knew
Fellow
Because
Ultimate
Ultimate Sacrifice
Friends
Celebrated
Celebrating
Them
Us
Paid
Who
Including
United
Lives
United States
There is no better way to improve wages and working conditions in our country than to support the right to unionize. Throughout our history, unions have improved the lives of millions of American families, grown the middle class, and pushed our economy forward.
Jan Schakowsky
History
Class
Better
Country
Unions
Our
Way
Throughout
Pushed
Better Way
Support
Economy
Wages
Conditions
Families
Than
Improve
Improved
American
Middle
Middle Class
American Families
Working
Forward
Grown
Lives
Right
Millions
Reproductive health decisions should be made by a woman and her doctor. Any efforts to undermine women's reproductive rights must stop.
Jan Schakowsky
Health
Rights
Woman
Women
Doctor
Made
Must
Undermine
Efforts
Any
Stop
Reproductive
Decisions
Should
Her
American workers are the best in the world. They teach our children, care for our sick and elderly, build our communities, and much more.
Jan Schakowsky
Best
World
Care
Build
Sick
Our
More
American
Children
Elderly
Much
Workers
Teach
Communities
American Workers
Because the Bush Administration will set no timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, both chambers of Congress acted to make sure our troops will not be left in Iraq indefinitely.
Jan Schakowsky
Will
Congress
Our
Indefinitely
Administration
Both
Troops
Withdrawal
Make
Sure
Because
Iraq
Left
Timetable
Bush
Bush Administration
Acted
Chambers
Set
Ensuring that our children have more and better opportunities is the essence of the American dream.
Jan Schakowsky
Better
Opportunities
Our
Ensuring
Dream
More
American
Essence
American Dream
Children
For far too long, the Republican leadership in Congress has refused to act and pass comprehensive reform fixing our broken immigration system. In light of Republican inaction, I strongly support President Obama's executive actions on immigration.
Jan Schakowsky
Leadership
Broken
Immigration
Light
Long
Congress
Too
President
Our
System
Obama
Strongly
Comprehensive
Support
Executive
Pass
Reform
Fixing
Refused
Republican
Inaction
Far
Act
Actions
With affordable health care, women can have economic security and the peace of mind that they will not become a financial burden on their families.
Jan Schakowsky
Health
Peace
Women
Financial
Burden
Care
Mind
Will
Become
Peace Of Mind
Security
Economic
Economic Security
Health Care
Families
Affordable
Affordable Health Care
We need a vibrant Medicaid program and strategies to expand affordable access to health care for all, especially for the specialty care services that community health centers do not provide.
Jan Schakowsky
Health
Care
Community
Health Care
Access
Provide
Expand
Affordable
Vibrant
Centers
Strategies
Specialty
Medicaid
Services
Need
Program
Three years into the war, tens of thousands of American troops remain targets of a growing Iraqi insurgency.
Jan Schakowsky
War
Three
Thousands
Troops
Remain
Tens
Tens Of Thousands
Insurgency
Years
Iraqi
Targets
American
American Troops
Growing
The House Republican leadership has simply run out of ideas.
Jan Schakowsky
Leadership
Out
Run
Simply
Ideas
House
Republican
Like other important immigrant communities, the Jewish experience in the United States represents the ideal of freedom and the promise and opportunity of America.
Jan Schakowsky
Freedom
Experience
Opportunity
Important
Other
States
Immigrant
Promise
Ideal
Like
America
Represents
Communities
United
United States
Jewish
In Illinois, community, migrant, homeless and public housing health centers operate 268 primary care sites and serve close to 1 million patients every year.
Jan Schakowsky
Health
Care
Year
Community
Every
Primary
Operate
Housing
Close
Sites
Patients
Centers
Public
Migrant
Public Housing
Illinois
Homeless
Serve
Million
I was proud to witness American Jewish organizations found the Save Darfur Coalition in June 2004 to mobilize a coordinated interfaith response to the ongoing humanitarian disaster.
Jan Schakowsky
Witness
Response
Darfur
Ongoing
Disaster
Proud
Mobilize
June
American
Coalition
Organizations
Found
Coordinated
Humanitarian
Jewish
Save
As a Jew I cannot sit idle while genocidal atrocities continue to unfold in Darfur, Sudan.
Jan Schakowsky
Sit
Darfur
Atrocities
Idle
Continue
Unfold
Cannot
While
Sudan
Jew
Americans firmly rejected Republican legislative efforts to repeal the ACA - only 17 percent supported it.
Jan Schakowsky
Percent
Only
Firmly
Supported
Repeal
Efforts
American
Legislative
Republican
Rejected
You might not want to go without essential health benefits or lose consumer protections if an insurance company many states away denies your claim or goes belly-up.
Jan Schakowsky
Health
You
Benefits
Lose
States
Claim
Consumer
Health Benefits
Without
Insurance
Go
Denies
Goes
Essential
Want
Might
Your
Many
Company
Away
Preventing gender-based violence is critical to establishing safe, productive, and healthy workplaces for all.
Jan Schakowsky
Healthy
Critical
Preventing
Safe
Establishing
Productive
Violence
Democrats stand ready and willing to work with President Trump to improve upon the ACA - but we will not sit by and watch him sabotage the health care of millions of Americans.
Jan Schakowsky
Work
Health
Care
Will
Sit
President
President Trump
Willing
Sabotage
Him
Health Care
Democrats
Ready
Trump
Improve
American
Stand
Watch
Millions
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