Americans believe that diversity is our greatest strength.

We will recruit at least 100,000 contact tracers with support from trusted local organizations in the communities most at risk to help state and local health departments use culturally competent approaches to identify people at risk of contracting or spreading the coronavirus.

Democrats believe we must reverse decades of underinvestment in America’s public health infrastructure. We will substantially increase funding for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and for state and local public health departments, many of which suffered deep budget cuts during the Great Recession and are at risk of further cuts as a result of President Trump’s recession. Democrats will support medical and public health research grants for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and other Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs), which are particularly well suited to research health disparities in the context of COVID-19.

Democrats will fight to raise wages for working people and improve job quality and security, 14including by raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour.

Democrats will strengthen labor rights for the more than 20 million public-sector employees in 1the United States by passing the Public Sector Freedom to Negotiate Act.

Democrats will implement a high-quality paid family leave system that protects workers from the unfair choice between attending to urgent health or caretaking needs and earning a paycheck. We will fight to ensure all employers provide at least 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave for all workers and family units, to enable new parents to recover from childbirth and bond with their newborns or adopted children and allow all workers to take extended time off to care for themselves or an ailing relative.

We will repair, modernize, and expand our highways, roads, bridges, and airports, including by installing 500,000 public charging stations for electric vehicles.

We will launch our country’s second great railroad revolution by investing in high-speed rail.

We will increase demand for American-made ships by ensuring U.S. 18cargo is carried on ships flying our flag.

And Democrats will close the digital 24divide that deprives more than 20 million Americans of high-speed internet access by investing in broadband and 5G technology, including rural and municipal broadband.

We will grow the nation’s biofuels manufacturing sector, including by strengthening the Renewable Fuel Standard, supporting E15 blends, and supporting research, development, and deployment of advanced biofuels.

No one should have to spend more than 30 percent of their income on housing. (Yet unlimited legal and illegal immigration made housing affordable. Democrats are committed to ending homelessness in America. Democrats commit to providing Section 8 housing support for every eligible family, and will enact protections to keep landlords from discriminating against voucher recipients. We will increase investments in public housing to expand availability for the first time since the 1990s. (Sounds like ending the suburbs.)

We will empower renters by working to establish a national tenant right to organize.

We will raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour and guarantee equal pay for women. (No definition of what equal pay for women means. Will secretaries make the same as engineers.)

We will guarantee Section 8 benefits to all who qualify. (Expensive. Ends suburbs. What about school safety.)

We will ensure no one is incarcerated solely for drug use, and support increased use of drug courts, harm reduction interventions, and treatment diversion programs for those struggling with substance use disorders.

Democrats also support increasing funding for research into health disparities by race, gender, 26age, geographic area, and socioeconomic status, with a particular focus on how the social determinants of health contribute to differences in health outcomes. Democrats will take steps to increase the diversity of principal investigators receiving federal grants, as well as of participants in federally supported clinical trials, to improve the quality and applicability of our medical 30research for women and people of color. (If Asian and White males are better at science, does that mean promoting Blacks, Latinos and women in the sciences will reduce scientific achievement?)

The federal government will incentivize states to stop incarcerating kids, and develop community-based alternatives to prison and detention 1centers for youth and invest in after-school programs, community centers, and summer jobs to provide opportunities for young people at risk. And Democrats believe that children who do enter the juvenile justice system should be given a true second chance, including by automatically sealing and expunging juvenile records.

We will also act to ensure that victims of federal, state, or local law enforcement abuses of power can 1seek justice through civil litigation by reining in the doctrine of qualified immunity.

Democrats support eliminating the use of cash bail and believe no one should be imprisoned merely for failing to pay fines or fees. Equal justice under the law should not be contingent on the ability to pay for quality legal representation, which is why we support increasing funding for public defenders and for the Legal Services Corporation.

we will fight to repeal federal mandatory minimums, (for sentencing)

We believe it is long past time to end the federal sentencing disparity between crack and powdered cocaine, which has contributed to the disproportionate imprisonment of people of color.

We believe Black lives matter.

Democrats will fight to guarantee equal rights for women, including by ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment and at long last enshrining gender equality in the U.S. Constitution. (Gender equality is not defined.)

Democrats will ban the manufacture and sale of assault weapons and high capacity magazines. We will incentivize states to enact licensing requirements for owning firearms and “red flag” laws that allow courts to temporarily remove guns from the possession of those who are a danger to themselves or others. We will pass legislation requiring that guns be safely stored in homes. And Democrats believe that gun companies should be held responsible for their products, just like any other business.

We will rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement.

We will follow science and the law by reducing harmful methane and carbon pollution from the energy sector. (Carbon is not a pollutant.)

We agree with scientists and public health experts that the United States—and the world—must achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible, and no later than 2050.

Within five years, we will install 500 million solar panels, including eight million solar roofs and community solar energy systems, and 60,000 wind turbines.

to install at least 500,000 public charging stations from coast to coast.

We will apply a carbon adjustment fee at the border to products from 1countries that fail to live up to their commitments under the Paris Climate Agreement.

We will increase support for restoring wetlands.

Democrats will protect wildlife habitats and biodiversity, slow extinction rates, and grow America’s natural carbon sinks by conserving 30 percent of our lands and waters by 2030. We support fully funding the Land and Water Conservation Fund to increase resources for conserving public lands and waters and incentivizing voluntary conservation efforts on private 1lands, including through private-sector ecosystems markets.

We stand united against the determined Republican campaign 23to disenfranchise voters through onerous voter ID laws.

Democrats believe Election Day should be a national holiday. work to ensure that returning citizens have their voting rights restored upon release from jail or prison.

Making Washington, D.C. the 51st State.

an unnecessary, wasteful, and ineffective wall on the southern border.

We will immediately terminate the Trump Administration’s discriminatory travel and immigration bans.

We will reinstate, expand, and streamline protections for Dreamers and the parents of American 10citizen children to keep families together in the communities they have long called home.

Democrats believe it is long past time to provide a roadmap to citizenship for the millions of undocumented workers.

We will eliminate family-based green card backlogs and reform the system to speed up family-based visas. (That will open the immigration flood gates way beyond granting citizenship and voting rights to illegal aliens.)

Democrats believe we must prioritize STEM education and funding for underrepresented students, including students of color, girls, and low-income students, to help reduce enrollment and achievement gaps.

We will ban for-profit private charter businesses from receiving federal funding. An dwe recognize the need for more stringent guardrails to ensure charter schools are good stewards of federal education funds. We support measures to increase accountability for charter schools, including by requiring all charter schools to meet the same standards of transparency as traditional public schools, including with regard to civil rights protections, racial equity, admissions practices, disciplinary procedures, and school finances. We will call for conditioning federal funding for new, expanded charter schools or for charter school renewals on a district’s review of whether the charter will systematically underserve the neediest students. And Democrats oppose private school vouchers and other policies that divert taxpayer-funded resources away from the public school system.

Democrats also believe that all schools should have adequate resources to expand school-based health services and hire guidance counselors, social workers, and school psychologists to help support students’ mental health needs and social and emotional development. And we will act expeditiously to reinstate Department of Education guidance protecting transgender students’ rights under Title IX and make clear that schools shall not discriminate based on LGBTQ+ status.

Democrats support appointing judges who will enforce the Civil Rights Act in schools and will fund magnet schools and school transportation initiatives to help facilitate improved integration. We will also reinvigorate and increase funding for the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights and improve federal data collection on racial segregation in schools.

Democrats will work to end the use of such high-stakes tests and encourage states to develop reliable, continuous, evidence-based approaches to student assessment that rely on multiple and holistic measures that better represent student achievement. (No SAT college admissions.)

Democrats believe that everyone should be able to earn a degree beyond high school, if they 6choose to, without money standing in the way. That is why we will make public colleges and universities tuition-free for students whose families earn less than $125,000—roughly 80 percent of the American people.

Democrats will end support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen and help bring the war to an end.

Democrats will make gender equality a key foreign policy priority and work to achieve gender parity across our national security team. We will implement the Women, Peace, and Security Act. (Signed by Trump in 2017.)

Admitting refugees is not only the right thing to do—it’s the smart thing to do.

Democrats will call off the Trump Administration’s race to war with Iran and prioritize nuclear diplomacy, de-escalation, and regional dialogue.

We support a negotiated two-state solution that ensures Israel’s future as a Jewish and democratic state with recognized borders and upholds the right of Palestinians to live in freedom and security in a viable state of their own.

We believe that while Jerusalem is a matter for final status negotiations, it should remain the capital of Israel, an undivided city