- healthcare reform - single payer preferred - but since it seems we must, work towards expanding coverage AND controlling costs. Changing incentives. Reigning in drug companies.
- a strong welfare system, in the line of the Nordic system
- closing the income gap. higher taxes on the wealthy as a step to prevent deficit spending; wage caps.
- education - 1. controlling costs of higher education, and expanding grants/ interest free and easy to repay loans to ensure that students have equal opportunity to get a good education based on their merits. 2. dealing away with bullshit standardized learning programs. 3. ensuring that art, music, theatre, etc programs are financed
- the arts - keep them afloat
- a holistic approach to protecting the environment, with attention to existing green space and the protection of threatened species.
- women's rights
- shutting down factory farms.
- more regulation in the financial sector.
- immigrant rights
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