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Latest Promises

Double value of Pell Grants

Provide Section 8 vouchers to low-income families to cap housing costs at 30% of income

Put US on a course to net-zero emissions by 2050.

Increase access to affordable housing

Repeal law barring Medicare from negotiating lower drug prices

Raise corporate tax rate to 28%

Offer up to $8,000 tax credit for child care

Establish an offshoring tax penalty

Offer universal preschool to 3- and 4-year-olds

Guarantee 12 weeks paid family and medical leave

Protect coverage for pre-existing conditions

Repeal or soften Act 10

Repeal changes made to prevailing wage laws

Bolster preventive health programs that have been defunded

Tighten regulations on state’s school voucher program, or end it entirely

Tighten 'Made In America' rules

Prohibit businesses from asking applicants about criminal histories

Raise minimum wage to $15 an hour, with automatic inflationary increases

Support ending solitary confinement

Work to cut prison population in half in coming years

Expand background checks and put in place gun restrictions

Assure high-speed broadband access to all homes, businesses

Reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act

Block new fracking on federal lands, but not ban all fracking