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The United States should move toward a single-payer Medicare for All system — it is the only model that would achieve universal coverage efficiently.

The United States needs a federal paid family and medical leave programme — it is the only OECD country without one.

US trade agreements must include binding, independently enforceable labour and environmental standards.

Right-to-work laws weaken collective bargaining and should be repealed at the federal level.

A wealth tax on fortunes above $50 million would raise significant revenue without materially harming productive investment.

The carried interest tax preference for private equity and hedge fund managers should be eliminated.

Federal student loan forgiveness should be expanded substantially, prioritising borrowers from programmes with poor labour market outcomes.

The federal minimum wage should be raised to $15 an hour and automatically indexed to inflation thereafter.

Social media platforms should be legally required to disclose their algorithmic recommendation systems to independent researchers.

The United States should lead in setting global AI governance standards rather than deferring to the EU or avoiding binding international frameworks.

Americans' personal data should not be sold to or accessed by foreign governments without explicit consent or a court order.

Workers displaced by AI automation should be supported by a publicly funded retraining and transition programme.

A federal AI safety agency with power to evaluate and conditionally halt high-risk deployments should be established.

Antitrust enforcement against Amazon, Google, and Meta should be substantially strengthened — current market concentration harms competition.

Section 230 liability protection for social media platforms should be narrowed where platforms knowingly amplify demonstrably harmful content.

The federal government should create a carbon border adjustment mechanism to prevent carbon leakage from countries without equivalent climate policies.

States should not be permitted to block federally authorised clean energy infrastructure on their territory for political rather than technical reasons.

Federal agricultural subsidies should be substantially reoriented toward low-emissions and regenerative farming practices.

New federal permits for LNG export terminals should be paused given their long-term lock-in of fossil fuel infrastructure.

The United States should meet its nationally determined contribution under the Paris Agreement and fund it fully.