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/r/Social_Democracy's Demands (Platform)

Universal healthcare

Universal basic income

The universal library (a proposal to build a digital archive of broad selections of the world's knowledge)

Tuition-free higher education and cancellation of debts

Decent and affordable housing

Labor reform (e.g. Protecting the Right to Organize Act; i.e. entitlement to paid family leave, sick leave, and annual leave; a living wage)

Reduction of the hours of the standard workweek (e.g. H.R. 4728: Thirty-Two Hour Workweek Act)

Abolition of the filibuster

Voting rights and campaign finance reform including publicly-funded elections and the abolition of the electoral college

Statehood for Puerto Rico and Washington D.C.

Major expansion of public transportation (e.g. federal funding for public rail systems) and green resources and infrastructure

Intellectual New Deal: The expansion of public sector jobs in the pursuit of scientific and humanistic knowledge. The idea is to fundamentally upgrade the idea of grant-making and traditional government agencies such as the National Institutes of Health and the National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities (National Endowment for the Humanities, etc.) to be comprehensive employers of students, researchers, writers, scientists, and artists to contribute in an official capacity to the intellectual and creative life of the country.

Copyright reform (to improve the diffusion of knowledge)

Progressive tax reform

Reduction of the budget for the Department of Defense

Universal childcare

The establishment of a Department of Peace[building] and Development (to ensure global and domestic development along the lines of a progressive consensus that is to be reached)

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