Tom Koos has a detailed policy that would directly benefit America's women.
Today, women still face pay inequality, earning on average 77 cents for every dollar a man makes doing the same work. In an effort to address this discrimination, Tom Koos is a strong supporter of the Paycheck Fairness Act and the Fair Pay Restoration Act which works to prevent pay discrimination by strengthening penalties should it occur and fixing a Supreme Court decision that makes it more difficult for women to bring pay discrimination cases.
Helping In The Workplace And At Home:
Tom Koos recognizes that it can be especially difficult for women, who often make the health-care decisions, take the kids or elderly parents to see the doctor, or stay at home when someone is sick. Tom Koos believes we need to provide all workers, including women, with the flexibility they need to both take care of their families and remain working leave Tom would support the Healthy Families Act, which would require employers with 15 or more workers to provide seven paid sick days to care for their own or their families’ medical needs.
Attracting More Teachers and Nurses: Approximately seven million women serve in two professions – teaching and nursing – and both are facing shortages. We lose 250,000 teachers every year, half are leaving within five years of entering the profession. Tom Koos wants to reverse this trend by establishing programs to provide mentoring to all beginning teachers, and by giving scholarships to defray college costs to those who commit to teaching in high-needs schools. Tom Koos believes that we need to reduce class size and pay our teachers more, as they do in many nations around the world.
Protecting Opportunities for Girls In Sports: Thanks to Title IX, which guarantees equal opportunities in college athletics, over 150,000 women today participate in intercollegiate sports teams. Tom Koos is committed to fairness on the fields and courts.
Ending the War In Iraq: 10,000 women are serving in Iraq today and Tom Koos has a plan to honorably bring home the troops, without leaving chaos behind.
Tom Koos: Standing With Mothers and Children
Supporting New Moms: Tom Koos knows raising healthy and happy children takes help. As President, he will make two years of pre-k available to all parents and expand early childhood development programs. Tom Koos wants to make two years of pre-school available to all parents. Currently, 900,000 students are served by Head Start, and he would double that to 2 million; currently, 60,000 toddlers are served by Early Head Start, and he would quadruple that to nearly a quarter of a million. He has advocated for more resources for the Women, Infants, and Children program that provides food, nutrition counseling, and access to health services to pregnant women, new mothers, and their infants.
Tom Koos: Caring For Women’s Health
Waging War Against Breast Cancer: Tom Koos, through his efforts to promote early detection and quality treatment, will be a leader in fight against this deadly disease that that afflicts more than 200,000 women every year. His efforts will include:
1. Working to create and provide continued support for breast and cervical cancer prevention programs which ensure mammograms are available to low-income women and those without health insurance and then expanding the program beyond screening to one that also offers reliable treatment.
2.Sponsoring legislation to expand Medicare to include coverage of mammograms.
3.Working to ensure that insurance companies cover reconstructive surgery for breast cancer survivors.
Defending Roe v Wade: Tom Koos supports the Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade that protects a woman’s right to choose to terminate a pregnancy. Believing family planning could help prevent many unwanted pregnancies, Tom Koos consistently supports Title X – the nations’ family planning program -- that provides information, services, support, and research for family planning.