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Table of Contents
DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 4
PREAMBLE 5
PROTECTING AMERICANS AND RECOVERING FROM THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC 8
BUILDING A STRONGER, FAIRER ECONOMY 13
- Protecting Workers and Families and Creating Millions of Jobs Across America 14
- Raising Wages and Promoting Workers’ Rights 14Enacting Robust Work-Family Policies 16
- Investing in the Engines of Job Creation 16
- Building A Fair System of International Trade for Our Workers 20
Putting Homeownership in Reach and Guaranteeing Safe Housing for Every American 20 - Leveling the Economic Playing Field 22
- Reforming the Tax Code to Benefit Working Families 22
- Curbing Wall Street Abuses 23
- Ending Poverty 23
- Protecting Consumer Rights and Privacy 25
- Tackling Runaway Corporate Concentration 25
- Guaranteeing a Secure and Dignified Retirement 25
ACHIEVING UNIVERSAL, AFFORDABLE, QUALITY HEALTH CARE 26
- Securing Universal Health Care Through a Public Option 28
- Bringing Down Drug Prices and Taking on the Pharmaceutical Industry 29
- Reducing Health Care Costs and Improving Health Care Quality 29
- Expanding Access to Mental Health and Substance Use Treatment 30
- Expanding Long-Term Care Services and Supports 30
- Eliminate Racial, Gender, and Geographic Health Inequities 31
- Protecting Native American Health 32
- Securing Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice 32
- Protecting and Promoting Maternal Health 33
- Protecting LGBTQ+ Health 33
- Strengthening and Supporting the Health Care Workforce 33
- Investing in Health Science and Research 34
PROTECTING COMMUNITIES AND BUILDING TRUST BY REFORMING OUR CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM 35
HEALING THE SOUL OF AMERICA 39
- Protecting Americans’ Civil Rights 39
- Achieving Racial Justice and Equity 39
- Protecting Women’s Rights 42
- Protecting LGBTQ+ Rights 42
- Protecting Disability Rights 43
- Honoring Indigenous Tribal Nations 44
- Ending Violence Against Women 47
- Ending the Epidemic of Gun Violence 47
- Supporting Faith and Service 48
- Supporting Press Freedom 48
- Supporting the Arts and Culture 49
COMBATING THE CLIMATE CRISIS AND PURSUING ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE 49
RESTORING AND STRENGTHENING OUR DEMOCRACY 55
- Protecting and Enforcing Voting Rights 55
- Reforming the Broken Campaign Finance System 57
- Building an Effective, Transparent Federal Government 57
- Making Washington, D.C. the 51st State 58
- Guaranteeing Self-Determination for Puerto Rico 59
- Supporting the U.S. Territories 59
- Strengthening the U.S. Postal Service 60
CREATING A 21ST CENTURY IMMIGRATION SYSTEM 61
PROVIDING A WORLD-CLASS EDUCATION IN EVERY ZIP CODE 64
- Guaranteeing Universal Early Childhood Education 65
- Supporting High-Quality K-12 Schools Across America 66
- Making Higher Education Affordable and Accessible 69
- Providing Borrowers Relief from Crushing Student Debt 70
RENEWING AMERICAN LEADERSHIP 72
- Revitalizing American Diplomacy 73
- Rebuilding America’s Tool of First Resort 73
- Reinventing Alliances 74
- International Institutions 74
- Foreign Assistance and Development 75
- Transforming Our Armed Forces for the 21st century 75
- Ending Forever Wars 75
- Securing our Competitive Edge 76
- Defense Spending 77
- Keeping Faith with Our Veterans and Military Families 77
- Civil-Military Relations 78
- Mobilizing the World to Address Transnational Challenges 78
- Global Health and Pandemics 78
- Climate Change 79
- Technology 80
- Nonproliferation 81
- Terrorism 81
- Democracy and Human Rights 82
- Advancing American Interests 85
- Global Economy and Trade 85
- Africa 86
- Americas 87
- Asia-Pacific 87
- Europe 89
- Middle East 90
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