RVP~1875 in Jefferson was the site of a third presidential candidate to stop in Greene County this week.

U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren held a public town hall Thursday afternoon. She told the packed house crowd that she is “in the fight” because she wants to make sure that families are above the poverty line while working a minimum wage job. Warren wants to weed out the polluting companies that provide experts to testify in Washington D.C. that deny climate change exists. She also touted “Medicare for all.”

Warren’s main part of her speech focused on three parts: ending corruption in America, making structural changes to the overall economy, protecting democracy. One way Warren said that she would make changes to the economy is by putting a two-cent tax on every dollar for those who have over $50 million in wealth. Her tax would impact to the one-tenth of one-percent of Americans.

Warren pointed out the money generated from the tax would provide free universal daycare and pre-kindergarten education, raise childcare and preschool teacher salaries and make post secondary education or technical training tuition free. Additionally the tax would also allow for $50 million for historically black colleges and universities and cancel student loan debt for 95-percent of Americans.

“But what we’re saying is if you make it big, I mean really big, I mean super big, top one-tenth of one-percent big, pitch in two cents so everybody else in this country gets a chance to make it.”

Warren also stopped in Harlan and Fort Dodge on Thursday.