Palin vs Obama on the Issues Obama and Palin on the Issues
Declined 2012 Republican Presidential Candidate

Former Governor of Alaska
Sarah Palin

Palin's profile and positions on the issues





• Sarah Palin has been a firm supporter of the Salvation Army and as a result has not only provided them with recognition but has also encouraged charity to the organization as a whole.

• Through her various statements, Sarah Palin feels that although there is adequate funding for faith-based initiatives, the municipal revenue should be shared between the states so that each of the local areas can attend to their own priorities.

• In her opinion, there should be a rural energy plan which should be established and followed by each of the states.

• One of the points about which Sarah Palin has been particularly vociferous throughout her campaign is the Earned Income Tax Credit, also known as EITC. According to her, since EITC is a work support program for low-income families, people who are qualified must put in their applications and avail the various benefits. It is on her initiative that thousands of welfare recipients were incorporated as a part of the active work force by the EITC.

• Sarah Palin has categorically stated that she opposes actions which cut off Alaskans from the American Fisheries because of the fact that today many coastal villages depend on commercial fishing as the main economical activity.

• Her support for the Salvation Army springs from the fact that it is an organization which is deeply rooted in the region's history and has served people not only in the region but all over the world. It is in recognition of their efforts that Sarah Palin has proclaimed the celebration of Red Kettle Day in Alaska and has also urged with the people of Alaska to support the Red Kettle campaign.



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Declared 2012 Democratic Presidential Candidate

Current President of the United States
Barack Obama

Obama's profile and positions on the issues
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• During his campaign in 2008, Barack Obama voiced a firm commitment to reduce poverty by announcing that it is through the conjoined efforts of everyone involved that poverty could be reduced to half its actual figure during the next ten years.

• Assigning poverty the status of being a national priority, Barack Obama has supported the introduction of a new Federal measure of poverty which is supposed to be more accurate and helpful in tackling its after-effects on the following generations. Hence, the modern guidelines of federal poverty are meant to reflect the costs of living and study the various sources due to which the American families face economic pressure.

• In order to translate his statements to reality, Barack Obama outlined a plan consisting of various proposals in a bid to fight rural poverty. Some of the salient points of his proposals were development of telecommunication technology in rural America, improving the infrastructure by investing in water and sewer system and building small city airports.

• In his urban poverty program, Obama vowed to create twenty dream neighborhoods in various cities across the country based on the lines of the Harlem Children's Zone in New York City.

• The urban poverty program has also been designed by Obama to fight concentrated poverty in American cities by creating more economic opportunities, recruiting more teachers and making the profession of teaching attractive by augmenting the salary and providing support services.

• A noteworthy proposal made by Obama in the direction of reducing urban poverty was the creation of 'Affordable Housing Trust Fund' as a result of which 112,000 new affordable units would be added in the mixed income neighborhood.



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