John McCain
U.S. Senator
(R-Arizona)

• Pursue trade agreements to open markets all over the world for American businesses, workers, and consumers
• Modernize the country's current Unemployment Insurance program
• Create flexible training accounts workers can use to pay for training at community colleges
• Create a lost earnings supplement for workers 55 and older who lose their jobs

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Barack Obama
U.S. Senator
(D-Illinois)

• Promote government-private employer partnerships to find jobs for low-income employees
• Support trade agreements that include good labor and environmental standards
• Amend NAFTA
• Raise the minimum wage and index it to inflation
• Create jobs by funding research and development and workforce training programs
• Push for passage of the Employee Free Choice Act, which ensures the ability of American workers to unionize

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