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| Obama speaks to female workers in Albuquerque |
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By Heather Clark Obama talked June 23 to Kitts and about two dozen of her female co-workers at the Flying Star Cafe and Satellite Coffee about lowering health care costs, providing tax cuts for middle class families and fighting for equal pay for women. “Too many American daughters grow up facing barriers to their dreams, barriers that their male counterparts don’t have to deal with and that have consequences for all American families,” said Obama, the son of a single mother, the husband of a working mother and the father of two daughters.Obama said he would work with people who have health insurance through their employers to lower their premiums and create a system similar to the one members of Congress have to cover the rest of the country. People with pre-existing conditions would be covered and the federal government would subsidize people who cannot afford coverage, he said. Such benefits might have helped Kitts, who said she was forced to sell her home after 11 months of breast cancer treatment when her health care bills reached $800 per month even with her insurance coverage. “Even just paying the copays three to four times a week when you’re going to the doctor ... it takes a toll,” said Kitts, who has recovered from her illness, but not the financial burden that came with it. Obama also said he would provide a host of other benefits, including: –a middle class tax credit of $1,000 per family that would affect 70 million working women. –indexing the minimum wage to inflation. –extending the Family Medical Leave Act to cover businesses with as few as 25 employees. –providing childcare credits for working women. “I can say with confidence that anybody who is working here at the Flying Star would end up having a tax cut as a consequence of my tax plan,” Obama said. The Obama campaign said in a news release that his tax plan, which also includes mortgage relief and help saving for retirement, would bring tax relief to 900,000 working New Mexicans. Republican presidential candidate John McCain’s campaign said Obama’s opponent co-sponsored a bill to allow employers to provide flexible work schedules to help employees balance work and family and he supported the Family Medical Leave Act in 1993, according to a news release Monday. As president, McCain would raise the personal exemption for each dependent from $3,500 to $7,000, one of a number of tax breaks that would help at least one parent stay at home to raise their families, the release said. With a backdrop of industrial-sized coffee bean roasters and burlap sacks of beans stacked halfway to the ceiling at the Albuquerque-area chain’s headquarters, Lt. Gov. Diane Denish, an early supporter of Obama’s former opponent Hillary Rodham Clinton, introduced the Illinois senator. Denish said white women earn 71 cents for every dollar a man makes, Hispanic women earn 60 cents per dollar and Native American women earn less than 50 cents. After Obama’s talk, Denish said Obama’s campaign will be “very aggressive” in New Mexico. Though she would have liked to see a woman become president, Denish said the differences between Obama and Clinton are “very minute” and so she’ll do as much as she can for the presumed Democratic nominee. Denish said Obama is someone who will fight for single heads of household and families living in poverty and will work to lower health care and education costs and help women start their own businesses. “He’s made that commitment and he hit all the right notes today in terms of those issues,” she said. Obama’s campaign also announced Monday that he would appear with Clinton on Friday in Unity, N.H. Kitts, a former Clinton supporter, said she hopes Clinton will be Obama’s vice president. “I think if he picks Hillary as a running mate, he can’t lose,” she said. From Albuquerque, Obama is heading to Nevada where he will appear in Las Vegas to talk about energy.  Quote this article on your site
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Lesha Kitts, who lost her home after being diagnosed with cancer, said she hoped Barack Obama would promise working women like her the same health care coverage that members of Congress have.
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