Bold action to guarantee the basics of a decent life: Medicare for All. Ban Grocery Price Gouging. Universal Child Care. Tuition-Free Public College & University.

Medicare For All

• Medicare for All, a national public health insurance program to cover every American from birth through the end of life and guarantee health care as a right, not a privilege
• Require pharmaceutical companies to negotiate with the federal government fair, low prices for ALL medications in order to sell them in the United States
• Major expansion of federal funding for public hospitals and community health centers

Affordable Housing for All of Us

• launch a major federal program to build millions of units of energy efficient affordable and social housing nationwide
• end speculation in housing and block private equity, big corporations, and foreign investors from buying up and owning large portions of our housing stock
• create a national rent stabilization policy to limit annual increases, building on the most successful city and state policies
• strengthen enforcement of tenant protections

Universal Child Care

• create a national public program, based on the best city and state models, to ensure universal access to child care so parents who want to work can do so without financial strain to ensure care for their children

Affordable Groceries

• ban price gouging by big grocery corporations
• enact a temporary negotiated national price cap on a “basket” of grocery essentials, modeled on the successful Mexican national policy
• start a national pilot program for public nonprofit grocery stores based on the best city and state models as well as existing military commissaries

Affordable World-Class Education

• Tuition-free public colleges and universities, two year and four year
• Subsidized post-graduate education for federal employees, healthcare workers, public school educators, and other essential specialist workers
• Guaranteed access to workplace training and apprenticeship programs
• Cancel student debt
• Universal pre-K
• Major increase in federal investment in K-12 public schools to raise teacher pay, reduce class sizes, and empower teachers

Raise Wages and Income

• national living wage –– raise the federal minimum wage to at least $17 an hour, indexed to inflation
• increase Social Security benefits and scrap the income cap on SSI tax to help pay for it
• empower workers to raise our wages and benefits through union organizing by passing the PRO Act and additional protections so that everyone is freely able to exercise the 1st amendment right of freedom of association to organize a union and have a voice at work
• develop a national pilot program on Universal Basic Income as part of policy to ensure Artificial Intelligence benefits all of us