On the Issues

• Economic Development
  • Connect every home and business in Vermont with fiber optic cable utilizing proven rural cooperative models
  • Raise the minimum hourly wage to $15 while providing increased employment to young people and growing our rural job market
  • Invest in programs for displaced workers, focusing on job retraining for current and future job markets
  • Finish progress made on marijuana legalization by taxing and regulating

  
  
• Climate Change Leadership
  • Address the realities of climate change through cost effective investment
  • Encourage farm digesters to harness methane for electric generation from manure as part of a comprehensive solution to address our farm runoff problem
  • Follow the Solar Pathways Vermont plan for reaching a 90% renewable energy supply by 2050
  • Protect Vermont's natural environment and waterways with established goals

• Inclusion for All Vermonters
  • Ensure safe schools where our children can learn, thrive, and never face a threat of gun violence
  • Address racial disparities in Vermont’s criminal justice system
  • Ensure Vermont communities are welcoming to all, including historically marginalized groups
• Collaborative Leadership
  • Work with teachers and local communities to address and improve education funding
  • Work with like-minded states to lay the groundwork for a universal healthcare system
  • Work with Vermont’s congressional delegation and like-minded leaders of other states to fight any cuts to Medicare or Medicaid
  • Protect collective bargaining and worker rights
  • Stand up to the negative headwinds from Washington through bold leadership and vision
  • Reverse the expanding chasm of economic inequality