JOBS-
**Enact the Full Employment Program which will directly provide 25 million green jobs in sustainable energy, mass transit, sustainable organic agriculture, and clean manufacturing, as well as social work, teaching, and and other service jobs.
**Provide grants and low-interest loans to green businesses and cooperatives, with an emphasis on small, locally-based companies that keep the wealth created by local labor circulating in the community, rather than being drained off to enrich absentee investors.
**Renegotiate NAFTA and other "free trade'' agreements that export American jobs, depress wages, and undermine the sovereign right of Americans and citizens of other countries to control their own economy.
BUDGET AND TAXES-
- Reduce the budget deficit by restoring full employment, cutting the bloated military budget, and cutting private health insurance waste.
- Eliminate needless tax giveaways that increase the deficit.
- Require full disclosure of corporate subsidies in the budget and stop hiding subsidies in complicated tax code.
- Rewrite the entire tax code to be truly progressive with tax cuts for working families, the poor and middle class, and higher taxes for the richest Americans.
- Reject cuts to Medicare and Social Security.
- Stop draining the non-profit sectors of our economy in order to give tax cuts to the for-profit sectors.
- Relieve the debt overhang holding back the economy by reducing homeowner and student debt burdens.
- Ensure the right to accessible and affordable utilities – heat, electricity, phone, internet, and public transportation – through democratically run, publicly owned utilities that operate at cost, not for profit.
- Maintain and upgrade our nation's essential public infrastructure, including highways, railways, electrical grids, water systems, schools, libraries, and the Internet, resisting privatization or policy manipulation by for-profit interests.
- Establish a 90% tax on bonuses for bailed out bankers.
EDUCATION-
- Provide tuition-free education from kindergarten through college, thus eliminating the student debt crisis.
- Forgive existing student debt.
- Protect our public school systems from privatization
- End high-stakes testing and stop punishing students and teachers for failures of the system in which they work.
- Stop denying students diplomas based on tests.
- Stop using merit pay to punish teachers.
HEALTH CARE-
- Provide complete, affordable, quality health care for every American through an improved Medicare-for-all insurance program.
- Allow full access to all medically justified contraceptive and reproductive care.
- Expand women's access to the "morning after" contraception by lifting the Obama Administration's ban.
- Roll back the community drivers of chronic disease, including poor nutrition, health-damaging pollution, and passive dirty transportation.
- Avoid chronic diseases by investing in essential community health infrastructure such as local, fresh, organic food systems, pollution-free renewable energy, phasing out toxic chemicals, and active transportation such as bike paths and safe sidewalks that dovetail with public transit.
- End overcharging for prescription drugs by using bulk purchasing negotiations.
- Ensure that consumers have essential information for making informed food choices by expanding product labeling requirements for country of origin, GMO content, toxic chemical ingredients, fair trade practices, etc.
ENVIRONMENT-
- Create millions of green jobs in areas such as weatherization, recycling, public transportation, worker and community owned cooperatives, and energy-efficient infrastructure.
- Adopt the EPA's new tougher standards on ozone pollution.
- Promote conversion to sustainable, nontoxic materials.
- Promote use of closed-loop, zero waste processes.
- Promote organic agriculture, permaculture, and sustainable forestry.
IMMIGRATION-
- Grant undocumented immigrants who are already residing and working in the United States a legal status which includes the chance to become U.S. citizens.
- Halt deportations of law-abiding undocumented immigrants.
- Repeal the deceptively named Secure Communities Act.
- Improve economic conditions abroad to reduce flow of immigrants, in part by repealing NAFTA.
- Demilitarize border crossings throughout North America.
- End the war on immigrants, including the cruel, so-called “secure communities” program
Jill Stein's vice president is Cheri Honkala.
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