Michael L. Kripchak

Economy

I will direct the Dept of Agriculture to invest in scientific innovations of sustainable farming practices with specific focus on fertilizer use. Many of our farms in the 6th are running on razor thin margins and the cost of fertilizers is easily 20% of operating expenses. Learn more

I will direct federal programing to create a advanced materials manufacturing hub in the Ohio River Valley so that this nexus will spawn many innovate high-tech manufacturing small businesses much like our neighbors across the State in Dayton already do with Wright-Patterson AFB. Learn more

Education

I will also have Congress authorize block grants for states to ensure kids have free school lunches made from locally grown foods that our farmers grow and free afternoon school programs to focus on the liberal arts be they music, art, or physical fitness and sports. Learn more

The standards and funding will not be linked to standardized tests but through the Whole Person Concept. Yes, kids will learn the 3 R's but they will also learn STEM, social studies, history and practical life skills. These standards by being set locally will mean Texan teachers cannot stop Ohio kids from learning about our local Ohio leaders like Gen William Tecumseh Sherman and New Yorkers won't be able to say Ohio kids shouldn't learn about difference between chestnuts and buckeyes. I will also work with the Board of Governors to ensure these state and local standards will have a positive feedback loop where individual state university systems will base their admission standards on the Whole Person Concept ensuring the end of “teaching to the test”. Learn more

Environment / Energy

I will also instruct the Dept of Interior to devise a plan on the construction of water resource management networks to include aqueducts to remove the threat of flooding in the southern and eastern states while transferring that excess water to the Heartland so our farmers' drought worries will be a thing of the past. Learn more

Infrastructure / Transportation

On the note of national infrastructure, I will push for Congress to instruct HUD or other appropriate cabinet agency to set minimum standards for our municipalities to provide the minimum level of public utilities to its citizens to include electricity, heat, water, sewage, and broadband. All these shall be implemented in the vein on anti-monopolistic practices that the DoD has worked hard to implement in their own agency — namely, utility transmission companies cannot be the utility generators or service providers. Learn more

Wages / Job Benefits

I will direct the Dept of Labor to develop an unemployment and continuous training scheme that will be managed by sector-wide unions based on NAICS codes or otherwise that will charged, much like in the Dept of Defense, to maintain the well-being of the “Reserve Force” of workers in their sector. This will be done by authorizing unemployment benefits and insurance to be managed through the unions as well as unions being the primary public vessel providing inputs to the Dept of Labor on sector-wide standards of training and education for our highly-skilled workforce of the 21st century. Learn more

In office, I will instruct the Dept of Labor to CODIFY STANDARDS FOR HOURLY-WAGE WORKERS that enforce not only an hourly minimum wage but one INDEXED to a 40hr work week. This will ensure hourly employees don't get abused by the two-tier payment systems that keep our citizens chronically underemployed. Learn more

Just as veterans' benefits are automatically indexed to inflation, I will also codify that all the federal benefits to American workers be indexed, to include minimum wage standards. Just because we want to live like our parents in the 1960s, it doesn't mean we should be paid the same nominal wages as them. Learn more