tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6363192358303438500.post-59119344522739990522008-05-21T18:53:00.002-04:002008-05-21T19:02:55.354-04:00<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UfYwONEm_5o/SDSpM3_jsfI/AAAAAAAAAfY/ToXZ5JYD34o/s1600-h/images.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5202969508173820402" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UfYwONEm_5o/SDSpM3_jsfI/AAAAAAAAAfY/ToXZ5JYD34o/s320/images.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-size:85%;color:#3366ff;">Related Posts: </span><a href="http://www.bulletpointjournal.com/2008/04/one-of-three-native-american.html"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#3366ff;">One of Three Native American Superdelegates Forced to Retract Obama Endorsement</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;color:#3366ff;">, </span><a href="http://www.bulletpointjournal.com/2008/04/video-of-barack-obama-and-hillary.html"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#3366ff;">Video of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton at Mansfield-Metcalf Event in Montana</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;color:#3366ff;">, </span><a href="http://www.bulletpointjournal.com/2008/05/barack-obama-adopted-by-crow-nation.html"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#3366ff;">Barack Obama "Adopted" By Crow Nation</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;color:#3366ff;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;color:#3366ff;"></span><br /><div align="justify">The Clinton campaign published "Hillary Clinton’s Native American Agenda for South Dakota: Provide Vital Services to Strengthen Tribal Economy, Health Care and Education, and to Combat Crime" on <a href="http://www.hillaryclinton.com/">www.hillaryclinton.com</a>.</div><div align="justify"> </div><div align="justify">The following are bullet points of her proposals:</div><ul><li><div align="justify">Provide "meaningful increases to the Indian Health Service (IHS) budget""Address the troubling health care disparities Native Americans experience by elevating the director of the Indian Health Service to the Assistant Secretary level"</div></li><li><div align="justify">"Institute a new initiative to take on diabetes through an aggressive campaign to stop and reverse the increasing incidences among Native Americans nationwide."</div></li><li><div align="justify">"Revive this nation's economy by investing $2.5 billion per year, which includes investments in tribes, in order to strengthen the nation's work force development efforts."</div></li><li><div align="justify">"Prepare our workers for the high-wage, high-skill jobs of the future builds on her bold agenda to create good, high-wage jobs in America."</div></li><li><div align="justify">"Increase the minimum wage to $9.50 by 2011, and index to congressional salaries after that."</div></li><li><div align="justify">Expand "the earned income tax credit, tripling the current benefit for single workers and making the benefit more generous for larger families."</div></li><li><div align="justify">"Restore funding for the New Market Tax Credit and Empowerment Zones programs.</div></li><li><div align="justify">Create "$50 billion Strategic Energy Fund (which) will invest in renewables and clean energy technologies that will help create at least 5 million green collar jobs" nationwide."</div></li><li><div align="justify">Create and expand federal-tribal partnerships to promote the use of solar and wind power in Indian Country."</div></li><li><div align="justify">"Fund the weatherization of all low-income homes in Indian Country."</div></li><li><div align="justify">"Increase funding for the Native American Housing Block Grant and modernize the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act."</div></li><li><div align="justify">"Increase funding for the Indian Head Start Program"</div></li><li><div align="justify">Support "Pre-K schooling programs that support a child’s native language."</div></li><li><div align="justify">Encourage the teaching of these languages (Lakota and Dakota) in Tribal Head Start in South Dakota."</div></li><li><div align="justify">"Ensure that tribally-sponsored pre-K programs in South Dakota receive federal matching dollars just as state programs do."</div></li><li><div align="justify">Increase "funding for tribal colleges."</div></li><li><div align="justify">Provide "resources for law enforcement in Indian Country, promoting state-tribal cooperative agreements where appropriate to reduce crime, and improving the collection of data on Indian Country crime and how those crimes are handled by authorities." </div></li></ul><p align="justify">Source: <a href="http://www.hillaryclinton.com/news/release/view/?id=7781">http://www.hillaryclinton.com/news/release/view/?id=7781</a></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6363192358303438500-5911934452273999052?l=www.bulletpointjournal.com' alt='' /></div>Nodatilu Juranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14185401740311220302noreply@blogger.com0