- Invest in our crumbling infrastructure with a
major program to create jobs by rebuilding roads, bridges, water
systems, waste water plants, airports, railroads and schools.
– Transform energy systems away from fossil fuels to
create jobs while beginning to reverse global warming and make the
planet habitable for future generations.
– Develop new economic models to support workers in
the United States instead of giving tax breaks to corporations which
ship jobs to low-wage countries overseas.
– Make it easier for workers to join unions and bargain for higher wages and benefits.
– Raise the federal minimum wage from $7.25 an hour so no one who works 40 hours a week will live in poverty.
– Provide equal pay for women workers who now make 78 percent of what male counterparts make.
– Reform trade policies that have shuttered more
than 60,000 factories and cost more than 4.9 million decent-paying
manufacturing jobs.
– Make college affordable and provide affordable child care to restore America’s competitive edge compared to other nations.
– Break up big banks. The six largest banks now have
assets equivalent to 61 percent of our gross domestic product, over
$9.8 trillion. They underwrite more than half the mortgages in the
country and issue more than two-thirds of all credit cards.
– Join the rest of the industrialized world with a Medicare-for-all health care system that provides better care at less cost.
– Expand Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and nutrition programs.
– Reform the tax code based on wage earners’ ability
to pay and eliminate loopholes that let profitable corporations stash
profits overseas and pay no U.S. federal income taxes.
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