Universal Health Care:
"The U.S. health care system has many grave faults that could be remedied by a system of universal coverage, including serious gaps in coverage for: prescription drugs and medical supplies; dental, vision, and hearing care; long-term care; mental health care; preventive care for children; and treatment for substance abuse. A recent study by National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine estimates that 18,000 25- to 64-year-old Americans die every year as a result of lack of coverage. That is 18,000 human beings every year, not counting younger Americans."

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Worker's Rights:
"Workers need a living wage - not a minimum wage; access to health care and no unilateral reductions in medical benefits and pensions for current employees and retirees."

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Creating Jobs:
"By requiring equitable trade, investing in urgently needed local labor-intensive public works (infrastructure improvements), creating a new renewable energy efficiency policy; by fully funding education and redirecting large bureaucratic and fraudulent health expenditures toward preventive health care we can reverse this trend and create millions of new jobs."

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Public Education:
"The federal government has a critical supporting role to play in ensuring that all children -- irrespective of the income of their parents, or their race -- are provided with rich learning environments and equal educational opportunities and upgraded repaired school buildings.

The federal government must not impose an overemphasis on high-stakes standardized tests."

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Environment:
"Toxic standards need to be strengthened. Currently toxic standards are designed for adults not for more vulnerable children, this should be reversed. We need to make environmental protection a priority for our energy, trade, industrial, agricultural, transportation, development and land use policies, indeed protecting the environment must be weaved throughout our governance."

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Affirmative Action:
"After more than 300 years of affirmative action to benefit white males, we definitely need affirmative action for people of color and women to offset enduring historic wrongs as well as present-day inequalities. Affirmative-action programs should not be based on quotas, and race and gender should not be the predominant factor in choosing qualified applicants. A good affirmative- action program uses a variety of methods to achieve the goal of increasing diversity, including using race and gender as one of many factors in evaluating the suitability of an applicant."

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Poverty:
"Many millions of Americans live in what is called "near poverty" by the Labor Department. We must make ending poverty a priority and weave that goal into a network of policies:
Truly Progressive Taxation
An End to huge Corporate Subsidies and Military Budget Waste
Job Creation
Equal Pay for Women
Child-Care
Living Wages for All Workers
Restore the critical Social Safety Net"

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War and Peace:
"Our foreign policy must redefine the elements of global security, peace, arms control, an end to nuclear weapons and expand the many assets of our country to launch, with other nations, major initiatives against global infections diseases."

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