Katie Hobbs (D)
Kari Lake (R)
Wages
| As a member of the Arizona Senate, Hobbs proposed raising the state’s minimum wage to $14 and supported the ballot initiative to raise the minimum wage. | Lake opposes raising the minimum wage, saying it would lead to workers being replace by robots. |
| Hobbs supports eliminating the lower minimum wage for tipped workers, who earn nearly $5 less per hour than non-tipped workers. [1] |
Paid Time Off & Sick Leave
| Hobbs supported the ballot initiative which would require corporations to provide their workers with 7 paid sick days a year. Hobbs supported the American Rescue Plan Act, which created emergency paid leave during the pandemic. [2] | Lake has said nothing about whether she supports workers having paid time off to care for themselves or a family member. [3] |
Helping Essential Workers
| Hobbs consistently supported frontline workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. As secretary of state, she provided $9 million in pandemic funding for poll worker safety and supported counties in providing PPE for safe voting practices. Hobbs supports the American Rescue Plan Act, which includes funding for frontline essential worker PPE and other worker protection activities. Hobbs supports expanding childcare assistance and believes Arizona should have a state-level version of the federal child tax credit. [4] | Lake has received an endorsement from politicians who failed to protect workers during the pandemic. [5] |
Health Care
| Hobbs secured funding for healthcare for nearly 24,000 low-income children; opposed efforts to cut Medicaid funding, which provides healthcare to hundreds of thousands of Arizonans, and voted to require hospitals to publish the price of their services. | Lake has said nothing about what she would do to lower prescription drug costs for workers. [7] |
| Hobbs says she will exempt over-the-counter medicine, feminine hygiene products, diapers, and baby formula from sales tax, pursue state-level Medicaid drug price negotiation, and stop drug makers from raising prices to “exorbitant levels.” [6] |
Economic Insecurity & Inflation
| Hobbs understands the struggles of everyday families. She has said she will work to “implement Arizona’s first price gouging law.” She has also called for Arizona to implement a state-level version of the federal child tax credit, which would provide $250/month per child for families, and called for a sales tax holiday on school supplies. | Lake opposed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which invests over $300 billion in energy and climate reform, lowers prescription drug costs, and created a 15% minimum tax on corporations with over $1 billion in income. The IRA will also work to combat inflation and shore up the Affordable Care Act, which has expanded insurance coverage to millions of Americans. [9] |
| Hobbs supports the American Rescue Plan Act, which included $1,400 direct payments to individuals, extended unemployment benefits, provided relief for multiemployer pensions, and expanded the child tax credit. [8] |
Unions & Labor
| Hobbs has said she will “stand with labor so that Arizona workers get the pay, benefits, and job safety that they deserve.” She supports creating a refundable tax credit for career and technical education opportunities. | Lake has been silent on what she will do to support working people who want to form a union. |
| Hobbs has received endorsements from UFCW 99, Teamsters 104, UNITE HERE Local 11, the Arizona Education Association, AFCSME, Southwest Carpenters, and IAM Local SC310. [10] |
Voting Rights
| As secretary of state, Hobbs was Arizona’s frontline defense against baseless accusations of fraud in the 2020 election. She fought the sham Arizona audit, which showed there was no widespread fraud. | Lake has repeatedly made false claims about the 2020 election. She said would have decertified the results and even called for Hobbs, who defended the integrity of the 2020 election, to be jailed. Lake supports completely ending early voting, which 88% of Arizonans used in the last election cycle. [12] |
| Hobbs supports online and same-day voter registration, expanded vote center availability, and extended early voting. She supports designating Election Day as a state holiday and automatically restoring voting rights to criminals who have finished their sentences. [11] |
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Twitter, @KariLake, 8/1/2022; NPR, 8/7/2022; Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, 8/1/2022.
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