Persuasive Letter For The 2016 Election

I am writing this letter to you to inform you of the potential presidential candidates for the 2016 election. Due to the fact that you are my little sister, I feel that it is my personal responsibility to help you learn more about each of the candidates and what their stances are on topics that may affect you. I feel that as a young girl, one of the two topics that you should deeply consider is the idea of raising the minimum wage, because as a young, uneducated female you will be automatically placed into the low-income bracket with the jobs that you are qualified for. I hope that you will vote for someone who will try to make that minimum wage job livable for you. The other topic that I would like you to consider when voting is consider

Bernie Sanders believes that a person who works full time should not have their family living in poverty (Sanders on Minimum Wage). He says that the real-value of minimum wage has dropped by 30% since 1968, meaning that money earned from a minimum wage paycheck is worth 30% less than what it used to be worth, so you will have 30% less buying power (Sanders on Minimum Wage). As a solution to solve the problem of people working full-time and living in poverty, Sanders wants to raise the national minimum wage from $7.15 an hour to fifteen dollars an hour, (Sanders on Minimum Wage). If Sanders were to become president then you would be able to pay rent and move out like you always wanted to. Hillary Clinton is also in support of raising the minimum wage, and is in support of the “Fight for 15” campaign (Clinton on Minimum Wage). If you don’t already know, the “Fight for 15” campaign is a widely popularized campaign that would pay fast food workers fifteen dollars an hour and let them set up a union. However, Clinton has received some criticism from the New York Times in regards to raising the minimum wage (Levine). They pointed out that while Clinton claims that she supports raising the minimum wage, she has been very vague about how or when she would do it (Levine). Due to this, I would say that Bernie Sanders would be a better choice for raising the minimum wage, as he has

I always want you to have the choice on what happens to your body, as you are just becoming a young lady. Bernie Sanders is completely pro-choice. He wants every girl to be able to choose what happens to their body. During his time as a senator, he has voted that abortion be pro-choice every single time, so we know that he is able to be counted on (Sanders on Abortion). Hillary Clinton is also very supportive of women’s rights and is pro-choice as well (Clinton on Abortion). On the Republican side, both Donald Trump and Carly Fiorina are pro-life. They both think that abortion should be illegal, with the exception of rape, incest, or if the mother’s life is threatened due to the pregnancy (Trump and Fiorina on Abortion). I know that you are interested in a pro-choice president who will allow you the opportunity to choose what you think is best for your own life, so I know that these candidates are not the best choice for