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Medicare for All

  • End the fear of financial ruin from medical debt and the absurd pricing of healthcare in the US
  • Embolden the working class bargaining with corporations and empower small business owners
  • Save families/individuals thousands of dollars by eliminating premiums, copays, deductibles, and out-of-pocket expenses
  • Lower the costs of prescriptions and improve bargaining power over pharmaceutical companies

The Climate Crisis

  • Passing Legislation to Implement the Best of the Green New Deal
  • Move the United States towards 100% renewable energy​
  • ​Regulate industries that contribute to the crisis and hold them accountable

Money in Politics

  • Propose an Amendment to the US Constitution that stops unlimited spending in US elections
  • Permanently define that money is not speech, bringing an end to corruption of public officials

Education Reform

  • Mitigate the devastating effects of student loan debt by eliminating it
  • Student loan debt is one of the worst drains on the US economy and needs to be fixed
  • The American public bailed out Wall Street in 2009; it's time they help the American People out of this crisis

Worker Co-ops

  • Write and introduce legislation that empowers and protects the rights of workers
  • Give credence to highly effective workplace strategies
  • Encourage and motivate workers around the nation to have a full stake in their workplace
  • Mitigate wealth inequality by encouraging mutual cooperation, rather than hierarchical domination
So, what's a Worker Co-op?

Defend Individuals' Rights

  • Uphold the legal precedent from the Supreme Court; choice is between a woman and her doctor
  • Ensure that safe access to medical procedures to terminate unwanted pregnancies is always available
  • Financial support for organizations who assist everyone, men and women, on a wide array of medical issues
  • The right to practice one's own beliefs does not mean the right to tell others how they should practice theirs

$20 Minimum Wage

  • Increase the federal minimum wage to at least $20 per hour
  • Attach the minimum wage to inflation of the US Dollar
  • Set a mandatory salary for all teachers at $60,000/year minimum

Criminal Justice Reform

  • End for-profit prisons in America
  • Provide a path to reform and rehabilitation, rather than recidivism
  • Audit and investigate all current private prisons for illegal practices and excessive prisoner abuse
  • Hold accountable and punish officials who have profited off of the excessive or unnecessary sentencing of Americans

Support for Unions

  • Reinvigorate the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 and protect the right for workers to unionize
  • Encourage workers and provide them a public platform to voice their desires and concerns to unionize
  • Call out corrupt Union leadership and hold them accountable
  • Make information about how to unionize available to all employees, everywhere

Support LGBTQIA+ Rights

  • Crack down on business that practice discrimination against those in LGBTQIA+ community
  • Ensure federal, state, and local equal rights for everyone, regardless of sexual orientation or identity
  • Speak out against and fight social injustices and violence upon individuals and communities

Legalize Marijuana

  • Help pass legislation that ends the prohibition and criminalization of Marijuana, nationwide
  • Follow the precedent set by multiple states, including:  Washington, Colorado, Michigan, Illinois, Vermont, California, Nevada, Alaska, Oregon, Maine and Massachusetts
  • Commute all non-violent prison sentences of those in prison for marijuana-related charges
  • Pass legislation that does not allow major corporations to monopolize the new and growing industry

Bring Our Troops Home

  • Return the power to declare war back to the House of Representatives
  • Hold military leadership accountable, to identify a path to ending all conflicts abroad
  • Ensure a lifetime of medical and mental healthcare for our troops, whether through Medicare for All or by increasing funding for our VA

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