RepWatch | Brayden Olson’s futurist fundamentals
"It is factually, provably harder to get ahead in the
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Prior to entering the primary race last year, Olson advised legislators drafting the Washington Jobs Act of 2014. That state stimulus law allows for "equity crowdfunding" -- an investment mechanism that lets small businesses sell equity to large groups of small-dollar investors, and more easily gain startup capital. If elected, he hopes to "take that model to the federal level and say, look what we did, it worked, and this is the model we need to bring to the other states."
Like the rest of the Democratic field, Olson wants to broaden access to Medicare through a lower buy-in age and protect women's reproductive rights. Broader healthcare access and affordability will likely mean taking on big drug and insurance firms, he says. He also wants to build a hedge against downward wage pressures and unemployment brought on by mass automation and artificial intelligence. "Yes, when we created cars, it created more jobs, because cars can't build themselves," Olson says. "But these technologies can. ... It is unlike anything else we've faced before, and we need to be looking at the
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WashingtonVotes.org roll call: NCW legislators turned out at January's end to oppose a set of reproductive health care bills. In the
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