Healthcare

• Single-payer
• Free at the point of service
• No deductibles, no premiums, no co-pays, no networks, no confusion
• Choose any doctor you'd like
• Includes medical, dental, vision, hearing, emergency, mental health, and more
• Cap on pharmaceutical costs each year
• According to recent Yale study, we would save $450 billion a year and prevent 68,000 unnecessary deaths

Environment & Sustainability

• Green New Deal (H.R. 109)
• Achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, 40 to 60 percent by 2030
• Investing in zero-emission vehicle infrastructure and manufacturing, as well as clean, affordable, and accessible public transit and high-speed rail
• Create millions of high-wage jobs
• Introduce a Carbon Tax (H.R. 763)
• Cost and impact will be devastatingly higher with inaction

Agriculture

• Ensure farmers have the Right to Repair their own equipment
• Protect farmers from predatory patent lawsuits from seed corporations
• Reform federal subsidies to go to small and mid sized farms instead of disproportionately going to the largest producers
• Current food system accounts for 25% of greenhouse gas emissions- help farms of all sizes transition to sustainable agricultural practices
• Enforce the Clean Air and Water Acts for large factory farms to ensure proper oversight of pollution

Education

• Place a 1.5% cap on student loan interest - public or private loans
• Increase funding to K-12 public schooling
• Set a starting salary floor for public teachers
• Stop tying federal funding to standardized testing
• End public school funding via property taxes and equally fund per student- funding through property taxes results in unequal funding for schools that need it most
• Expand after-school programs

Rural Communities

• Ensure high-speed broadband internet access
• Raise minimum wage and tie to productivity for future growth (it would be at $24/hr today if it stayed tied to productivity since 1968)
• Stop consolidating rural schools and start building rural schools that can access and utilize distance learning opportunities
• Incentivize cooperative business models and utilities- food co-ops, credit unions, and farm co-ops
• Compensate farmers for improving ecosystems
• Invest in public transportation to better connect residents and provide access to jobs, schools, medical facilities, shopping, recreation, and more

Voting Reform

• Automatic voter registration at 18
• Full automatic Vote-by-Mail
• Expand early voting hours and locations to reduce election day lines
• Ranked choice voting
• Abolish the Electoral College
• Overturn Citizens United
• End Gerrymandering

Criminal Justice Reform

• Pass the Emmett Till Antilynching Act (H.R. 35)
• Marijuana record expungement
• Restore voting rights for felons
• End for-profit private prisons
• Independent investigations and prosecutions for police killings
• Demilitarize police
• Require police budgets to bear the cost of misconduct, not being able to use the general fund
• Establish a community oversight committee

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