Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump’s positions on some important issues.

Basic Information / Party: Democrat
Age: 68 / Party: Republican
Age: 70
ECONOMY / Hillary Clinton wants to raise the minimum wage to $12 an hour. She wants working families to pay fewer taxes and rich Americans to pay more.
She would like the government to spend more money on infrastructure projects to create jobs and grow the economy. / Donald Trump wants to renegociate many business contracts to make them more beneficial to American companies. He wants to create a 45% tariff on importations from China.
IMMIGRATION / She wants to reform immigration laws. She wants to protect some undocumented immigrants (for example young adults who arrived in the US when they were children). / He promises to build a wall along the US-Mexico border. He has proposed a temporary ban on foreign Muslims immigration.
ENVIRONMENT / She thinks climate change is a real danger. She supports the 2015 Paris climate agreement. Shewants to invest in renewableenergy. / He thinks climate change is not a real problem. He favors «frackling» to force oil and gas out of rocks.
TERRORISM / She wants the US Air Force to bomb ISIS and help local forces to fight it. She is in favor of a diplomatic solution to Syria’s civil war. / Trump wants to take away the oil that finances ISIS. He also wants to send more soldiers and bomb the terrorists.
US in the WORLD / She wants to continue to work with NATO to fight the agressions of China and Russia. She supports the agreement that says Iran’s nuclear program must be limited. / He would let Japan and South Korea have nuclear weapons (to defend against North Korea). He wants to cancel the agreement with Iran.
GUNS / She wants a ban on assault weapons. She wants to expandbackground checks and says that if someone is on a terrorism watch list, he or she shouldn’t be allowed to buy a gun. / He is opposed to any ban on assault weapons. He wants to expand background checks and says that if someone is on a terrorism watch list, he or she shouldn’t be allowed to buy a gun.

Vocabulary:

To raise= to lift, to bring something above its original position (when you had a 12/20 and the next test a 15/20).

A wage = a salary

An undocumented immigrant: a person who has no legal papers to live in a country.

An agreement = a contract, a deal.

ISIS = Islamic State of Iraq and Syria

NATO = North Atlantic Treaty Organization (OTAN in French)

An assault weapon:

To expand: to enlarge

A background check: it’s when you verify if a person has already had problems with the police.

A tariff: a special tax on products coming from other countries.

A border: the official seperation between two countries.

A ban= a prohibition, an interdiction.

To cancel: to erase, to eliminate, to delete