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— Pillar I

A Common Economy

You shouldn't have to work two jobs to afford one life. A Common Economy means wages that keep up with prices, worker protections that actually protect, small businesses that can compete against monopolies, and a tax code that asks the most from those who have the most — not the least. This isn't redistribution. It's rebalancing a system that's been tilted for decades.

11 of 50 positions·2 categories

My Life & Family

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  1. No. 13Labor & Minimum Wage

    Worker productivity rose 92% since 1979. Pay rose 34%. The difference went to shareholders — not to paychecks.

  2. No. 38Childcare

    Childcare costs $13,128/year per child — more than college tuition in 33 states. 51% of Americans live in a childcare desert. 2 million women left the workforce during COVID. Sweden caps childcare at 1–3% of income.

  3. No. 42Rural America

    180+ rural hospitals have closed since 2005 and 700+ more are at risk. 21% of rural Americans lack broadband. Rural counties lost 2.3 million people in a decade. The communities that feed and power the nation are being left to die.

Money & Economy

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  1. No. 02Taxation

    The tax code has been rewritten, loophole by loophole, to serve the ultra-wealthy. Our plan makes it fair — and funds everything else.

  2. No. 14Trade Policy

    Trade generated $2.6 trillion in gains — while destroying 2.4 million jobs in communities that never recovered. The fix is fair rules, not blanket tariffs.

  3. No. 15Social Safety Net

    Social Security is not a handout. It is a contract — wages withheld, contributions made, a promise exchanged across generations.

  4. No. 20Corporate Power & Antitrust

    Competition requires rules. When corporations write them, the market is neither free nor competitive. We restore the rules.

  5. No. 29National Debt

    America doesn't have a spending problem. It has a revenue problem manufactured by four decades of tax cuts for the wealthy. The Clinton surplus years proved higher taxes on the wealthy work.

  6. No. 32Corporate Responsibility

    $7.37 trillion in S&P 500 buybacks over a decade. CEO pay grew 1,094%; worker pay 26%. Germany proves codetermination works. We end the extraction.

  7. No. 35Affordability

    Productivity rose 92.4% since 1979. Wages rose 33.6%. America is the wealthiest nation in human history — yet tens of millions cannot afford to live in it. This issue ties all 34 others together.

  8. No. 43Automation & Future of Work

    30% of hours worked could be automated by 2030. Only 24% of displaced workers receive any retraining. Denmark spends 2% of GDP on active labor market policies. The US spends 0.1%. The future of work is here. The policy isn't.

In the news

Current stories that touch these positions, from the Common Good Dispatch, with the party’s analysis of what each one means.