Jill E. Stein
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- 11/6/2012
Stein (G) lost the President of the United States election with 0.33% of the vote.
Background
Stein, 62, of Lexington, Mass., is a physician and environmental health expert who graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Medical School. An unsuccessful New York gubernatorial candidate in 2002 and 2010, she is on a number of health boards in the Greater Boston area. She and her husband, Richard Rohrer, have two sons.
Issues
She said our economy is not working for the vast majority of Americans. That last year one million Americans lost their health insurance, raising the numbers of the uninsured to almost 50 million. That more than 6 million Americans lost their homes to foreclosure and that 30 million college students and recent graduates are trapped in the financial prison of student loan debt. "It is time to break free from the old economy, and the old politics. It's time for a Green New Deal for America," she said earlier this year. Stein's vice presidential running mate is Cheri Honkala.