August Educate Congress
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More than 132,000 people have begun signing petitions listing the types of laws that we believe accomplish those simple goals. We ask you to cosponsor this package of bills.
1. Medicare for All: H.R. 676 Medicare For All Act
2. Free College Tuition: H.R. 1880 College for All Act of 2017
3. Worker Rights: H.R.15 - Raise the Wage Act
4. Women’s Rights: H.R.771 - Equal Access to Abortion Coverage in Health Insurance (EACH Woman) Act of 2017
5. Voting Rights: H.R. 2840 - Automatic Voter Registration Act
6. Criminal Justice and Immigrant Rights: H.R. 3227 - Justice is Not For Sale Act of 2017
7. Taxing Wall Street: H.R. 1144 - Inclusive Prosperity Act
Without health care, people will literally die. Americans are drowning in more than a trillion dollars in student debt which cannot possibly be repaid working minimum wage jobs. We need to create a living wage, not just a minimum wage. If technology allows jurisdictions to mail a traffic ticket then technology knows when we reach voting age and also where we live; it is time for automatic voter registration.
The United States houses 25% of the world's inmates despite having only 5% of the world's population. It is time to end for-profit prisons and bed quotas which provide a financial incentive for mass incarceration rather than rehabilitation. A tiny tax of .50 on a $100 trade could generate nearly $1 trillion in income for the U.S. government over the next 10 years.
Signed by
Members of Progressive Democrats of America, Our Revolution, Democratic Socialists of America, Democracy for America, #AllofUs, Common Defense, National Nurses United, Working Families Party, Millennials for Revolution, Women's March, Labor for Our Revolution, People for Bernie, Good Jobs Nation, Young Progressives Demanding Action, Healthcare Now, Brand New Congress, Justice Democrats, Food & Water Action, Fight for 15
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SENATE
Here is a list of our priorities:
- Return to regular order; hold hearings, briefings and debate on important legislation
- The U.S is first in the world in health care costs but 37th in the world in health care outcomes. Make health care a right and support Medicare for All
- Ensure our young work force is the best educated in the world with College for All
- Reform Tax Policy and End Tax Giveaways to millionaires and billionaires
- Support budget initiatives that help families and communities, promote world peace, create jobs, protect the environment, provide good education for our children and provide affordable/safe housing
- Protect our public infrastructure (water, schools, roads, Postal Service, etc.) from privatization
- Create Living Wage Jobs in America that pay $15/hour
- Advance a Fair Trade Policy that Keeps American Jobs in America
- Make the ability to vote an American right not a privilege
- End wage discrimination based on sex, race and gender, ratify the Equal Rights Amendment
- Make Wall Street Pay its Fair Share through a Financial Transaction Tax; we can raise more than $1 trillion with a $.50 tax on a $100 trade over 10 years
- End our wars and occupations and invest in local communities rather than foreign misadventures
- America has 25% of the world’s prisoners but only 5% of the world’s population; end all policies that incarcerate for profit and destroy families and communities
- Ensure that our seniors and able to live in dignity by expanding Social Security
- Ensure that members of the disabled community have the means to live independent and dignified lives
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