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 Working Families Party

Together, we can make the future and build a country where everyone can thrive.

We believe that no matter where we come from or what our color, most of us want the same things. We want to earn enough to thrive, not just survive, and leave a better future for our kids. We want healthy food and clean water, safe neighborhoods and a safe world. We want to be free.

But the richest people on Earth — and the political insiders who serve them — have rigged the rules of our economy and our democracy to grab up wealth and power for themselves. They have defunded our schools, undermined community services, and stripped working people of the right to organize into unions. And then they blame poor people or people of different races or different places — aiming to divide us and distract us from what we have in common.

The Working Families Party is regular people coming together across our differences to make a better future for us all. We’re a multiracial party that fights for workers over bosses and people over the powerful. We want an America which realizes the promise – unrealized in our history – of freedom and equality for all.

REPAIR HISTORIC HARMS AND END SYSTEMIC RACISM.  

  • Shift resources away from policing, jails and detention centers, endless wars and agencies that separate families. Shift resources into schools, housing, healthcare and jobs, to enable all people – especially Black and brown people, immigrants, and Indigenous people – to thrive. 

  • Eliminate restrictive local zoning rules that keep housing and schools segregated by race and class. Aid Black families, and other people of color harmed by redlining in buying homes.

  • Respect the sovereignty of Indigenous Peoples and Tribal Nations. 

HELP EVERYONE GET AND STAY WELL, AND SUPPORT WORKERS, FAMILIES, AND SMALL BUSINESSES AS LONG AS IT TAKES. 

  • Free Covid testing and treatment for all, including the vaccine once one is available. 

  • Extend expanded $600 per week Unemployment Insurance until there are jobs for people to return to. Make sure it’s available to everyone, regardless of immigration status. 

  • No evictions, foreclosures, or utility shut-offs during the pandemic. Cancel rent and suspend debt payments until jobs return. 

  • Provide retroactive hazard pay for all essential workers

  • Care for parents, kids and teachers by delaying school reopening until the virus subsides and schools have the resources to do so safely. Ensure every student learning from home has the devices, nutrition and accommodations they need.

WORKING PEOPLE CAN’T WAIT YEARS FOR JOBS TO COME BACK, WE NEED MILLIONS OF JOBS NOW.

  • Put 16 million people to work immediately -- upgrading our broken infrastructure, modernizing and retrofitting millions of homes and buildings, staffing schools, hospitals and health departments, protecting and restoring forest and wetlands, creating opportunities for family farmers and rural communities, and revitalizing American manufacturing.

  • Raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour everywhere.

ADDRESS THE DEFICIENCIES IN HOW OUR GOVERNMENT CARES FOR US THAT THE PANDEMIC HAS REVEALED.

  • Make health care free and universal and take hospital and health insurance profits out of it. 

  • Ensure every worker who wants a union can join one, so that all workers, and especially essential workers, can bargain for good pay and benefits, safe conditions, and a voice on the job.

  • Guarantee universal child care, paid family and medical leave and paid sick days, and income support for parents taking care of kids full time.

  • Provide safe, affordable housing for all. 

  • Guarantee home and community based services for everyone, including mental health care. 

  • Cancel student debt, an unfair burden on working and middle class young adults.

  • Tax the giant corporations who don’t pay their share, and the wealth of the billionaires, who have gotten richer during the worst economic collapse in 90 years.

ACT NOW TO MAKE US ALL MORE RESILIENT TO CHALLENGES WE KNOW WE HAVE TO CONFRONT. 

  • Invest now to make our food, water, electricity, health, financial and other systems resilient to future crises like climate change.

    • Create public banks to make needed investments whenever private markets fail to.

    • Give the public ownership stakes in all corporations receiving bailouts.

    • Instead of subsidizing and bailing out oil and gas companies, buy them out, to further our transition away from fossil fuels and towards regenerative energy sources, and create green jobs in the process. Prioritize a just transition for workers in extractive industries. 

    • Prioritize investments in the poor and working-class communities, especially communities of color, which have historically suffered most from pollution. Ensure everyone has clean air to breathe and clean water to drink.  

  • Emphasize cooperation and diplomacy over competition in our dealings with other countries in order to confront challenges that transcend borders, like pandemics, armed conflicts, and climate change.

  • Protect our democracy from takeover by billionaires, corporations, war profiteers and bigots by getting big money out of politics and ensuring that every vote counts. Save the USPS to ensure we can vote by mail.

If you are interested in learning more their website can be found here.