The Green New Deal

Several months ago, there was talk of a “Green New Deal” based on several different sources, including:

Philip Harvey Learning from the New Deal

A Green New Deal, UK – First Report of the Green New Deal Group

69 Green Candidates Call for a “Green New Deal” to Change the Course of our Nation

The platform includes:

These are the ten planks of the Green New Deal:

• Cut military spending at least 70%
• Create millions of green union jobs through massive public investment in renewable energy, mass transit and conservation
• Set ambitious, science-based greenhouse gas emission reduction targets, and enact a revenue-neutral carbon tax to meet them
• Establish single-payer “Medicare for all” health care
• Provide tuition-free public higher education
• Change trade agreements to improve labor, environmental, consumer, health and safety standards
• End counterproductive prohibition policies and legalize marijuana
• Enact tough limits on credit interest and lending rates, progressive tax reform and strict financial regulation
• Amend the U.S. Constitution to abolish corporate personhood
• Pass sweeping electoral, campaign finance and anti-corruption reforms

The Green New Deal presents a clear and definitive progressive alternative to Democratic and Republican “business-as-usual.” Let’s share the message.