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January/February/March 2025
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Medicare Prices for All
Want a real raise? Slash health care costs by tying employer plans to Medicare rates.
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Make Employers Secure the Border
When Trump’s cruel treatment of immigration backfires—and it will—liberals need a more humane alternative. Here’s one: tough restraints on companies that hire undocumented migrants combined with generous opportunities for those migrants to become legal.
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Open a New Front for Racial Justice
The decades-long effort to push elite colleges to be more diverse has failed. Here’s a better strategy: demand more support for the underfunded colleges that already graduate most Black and Hispanic students, and plenty of white students as well.
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Champion the Self-Employed
Gig workers, contractors, and micro business owners are America’s fastest-growing workforce. Both parties have ignored their plight. Democrats need to offer them portable benefits and protections from monopoly corporations that crush them.
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Make Transportation Fair Again
From cramped seats to captive shippers to stranded cities, re-regulating airlines, rail, and trucking could revive America’s heartland.
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Fire the Contractors
Voters are right to want a less bloated and wasteful government. But Elon Musk’s plan will fail because the most inefficient parts lie outside it.
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Free College for the Working Class
Higher education needs a systemic solution to its problems of access, affordability, and quality. We have a plan.
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Corporate-Proof the Care Economy
Before the next wave of federal investment in child and elder care, we need a plan to stop big corporations from capturing those nascent markets and turning their services into nightmares for working class families.
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Tutorize, Don’t Privatize, Public Schools
This article is from a cover package of essays entitled Ten New Ideas for the Democratic Party to Help the Working Class, and Itself. Find the full series here. The subject of K–12 education barely came up during the 2024 presidential campaign. But it’s likely to be a big issue in Washington soon if, as many observers […]
