As costs go up against stagnant wages, we face a growing affordability crisis. Basic goods and services are increasingly impossible for working people to afford. More and more families are rent-burdened, cost-burdened, and forced to make impossible choices between necessities – like paying for food or paying for gas to get to work. 

Universal basic income and a living wage for all will help tackle the affordability crisis, but we must also create direct public services, including national grocery stores, free high-speed public transit, and high-speed gigabit broadband for every household.

Beating the affordability crisis also means passing a strong climate agenda. This includes a Civil Climate Corps that will help create millions of good-paying jobs and ensure a strong and sustainable transition to renewable energy for every community. 

When people have jobs that pay them for their hard work, clean water, clean air, clean energy, and more green spaces, we can create a future in which our families and communities have everything they need to survive and thrive.

• Universal Basic Guarantees: Medicare for All, Housing, Food and Water, Free Transit, High-Speed Internet, Childcare, Income, Jobs

• National Grocery Stores

• Regulating AI and Big Data

• A Workers’ Bill of Rights

• Adult-Use Cannabis  

• Green Union Jobs

• A Civil Climate Corps

• Modernized Energy Grids

• Expand Accessibility and Disability Rights Enforcement

• No Hyperscale Data Centers

• A Just Transition to 100% Renewable Energy

• Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security

• The Green New Deal

• Community Wealth-Building Entrepreneurship

• Equal Opportunity Audits Program

• Replacing the Gross Development Product with the Genuine Progress Indicator

• Reparations 

Real safety comes from strong communities, not over-policing or over-prosecuting. We must reduce violence by investing in housing, education, good jobs, and mental health care – the true foundations of stability. 

When ICE terrorizes our neighbors, when families are separated and innocent people are targeted in the name of citizenship, it is an attack on our communities. When giant corporations and special interests buy up our politicians, and exploit, skirt or change our laws to line their pockets, it is an attack on our right to make our voices heard. When militarized police attack and murder peaceful protestors, it is an attack on our right to stand up for the things we know our communities need most. 

In Philadelphia, we see that investing in our communities works; crime has dropped along with incarceration and recidivism rates. States across the country are proving that decriminalizing poverty and reducing incarceration actually does lead to lower crime. 

Community safety is about care, accountability, and investment in people, so every neighborhood can be a place where everyone is safe and free to thrive.

• Reduce Violence Through Community Support Systems

• Invest in Mental Health Responders

• Transform Criminal Sentencing

• Abolish the Death Penalty and Death By Incarceration

• End the War on Drugs

• Universal Childcare from Birth to Age 5

• Free Public Colleges and Vocational Training

• Better Pay for Teachers

• Abolish ICE & Dismantle Immigrant Concentration Camps 

• Publicly Fund Elections and Fix Rigged Election Maps

• Impeachment and Removal of President Trump

• Reject All Corporate PAC Money

American leadership for too long has been defined by the violent impact we have on other nations. We must immediately dismantle the military industrial complex, cease all imperialist foreign policy, and end all U.S. led efforts for regime-change.

We must stop funding violations of human rights. The genocide in Gaza must end. The genocide in the Sudan must end. Every person deserves to be safe, no matter where their home is. Every state’s right to exist obligates it to extend equal rights to all people.

Every President in modern history has avoided Congressional oversight while conducting bombing campaigns and military expeditions abroad. Congress is supposed to act as a check and balance on Presidential war-making authority, but has failed to live up to its responsibility year after year. We must immediately reduce the U.S. military footprint abroad and invest in addressing the root causes of systemic violence across the world.

• An End to Regime Change

• Free Assembly and Self-Determination for Palestine

• Immediate and Permanent Ceasefire Between Israel and Palestine Including Release of People Held Without Due Process

• Palestinian Right of Return Under International Law

• Unrestricted Humanitarian Aid in Gaza

• End Economic Support for Fascists Abroad

• A New War Powers Act

• No More Funding for Violations of International and U.S. Law

• Ending the Embargo on Cuba

From Independence Hall to Fairmont Park to public libraries and rec centers across the country, the federal government’s strong economic investments have historically created pathways to productivity and pride. By employing millions of people, the government has lifted families out of poverty and provided sustainable and quality jobs during times of desperate need.

As a Democratic Socialist, I believe that revitalizing federal public works programs would reclaim pathways to long-term economic mobility and create a focus point for critical national efforts like infrastructure upgrades, green energy conversion, nature conservation, and more. 

• Social Infrastructure Investments in Public Parks, Libraries, Community Centers, Urban Gardens, Third Spaces

• Participatory Democracy

• Establish Baby Bonds and Invest in Civic Engagement

• Union Board Representation

• National Projects and Jobs

• Social Housing Scaled Nationally

• Renovate and Retrofit Publicly Owned Buildings and Vacant Properties

As we continue to face the increasing impacts of climate change, we need action now. Decarbonizing our economy is not just good for the environment and our health and safety, it will also strengthen economic opportunity for so many of our most vulnerable communities. Passing a strong climate agenda that includes a Civil Climate Corps will help create millions of good-paying jobs and ensure a strong and sustainable transition to renewable energy for every community. 

Clean water, clean air, clean energy, more green space, and millions of jobs is a vision of the future our families and communities need to survive and thrive.

• Green Union Jobs

• A Civil Climate Corps

• Modernized Energy Grids

• A Decarbonized Society

• Green Spaces and Clean Air and Water

• No Hyperscale Data Centers

• A Just Transition to 100% Renewable Energy

• Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security

In cities and communities across the country, we are feeling the devastation of our collapsing democracy. Our institutions are being undermined, our freedom of speech is under attack, and our very ability to count our votes questioned.

Our democracy is also threatened by a deadly ICE crackdown. When families are separated and innocent people are targeted in the name of citizenship, it is an attack on our core democratic values. When billionaires buy up local media and stifle the news to fit their worldview, it is an attack on us. When giant corporations buy up politicians, exploit, skirt or change our laws to line their pockets, it is an attack on our ability to make our voice heard in our democracy.

But we can have a real democracy. It’s time to step up to defend our rights.

• Abolish ICE & Dismantle Immigrant Concentration Camps 

• End Corporate Media Monopolies

• Protect Freedom of Speech

• Publicly Fund Elections and Fix Rigged Election Maps

• Strengthen Voting Rights

• Reject All Corporate PAC Money

• Supreme Court Overhaul 

• Impeachment and Removal of President Trump

Our country’s education system is in shambles. School buildings filled with lead and asbestos, overcrowded classrooms, and billionaire-backed competition for tight school funding have all undermined public school education. 

A truly universal child care system for kids from birth to age five, an equitably funded K-12 public school system, and truly free public college and job training programs will help ensure ongoing education access and opportunity for all. 

• Universal Childcare from Birth to Age 5

• Fully Funded Public Schools 

• Free Public Colleges and Vocational Training

• Better Pay for Teachers