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3 <br /> Attachment 1 <br /> From the Green Party of the United States Website <br /> THE FOUR PILLARS OF THE GREEN NEW DEAL <br /> I—THE ECONOMIC BILL OF RIGHTS <br /> Our country cannot truly move forward until the roots of inequality are pulled up, and the seeds <br /> of a new, healthier economy are planted. Thus, the Green New Deal begins with an Economic <br /> Bill of Rights that ensures all citizens: <br /> 1. The right to employment through a Full Employment Program that will create 25 million jobs <br /> by implementing a nationally funded, but locally controlled direct employment initiative <br /> replacing unemployment offices with local employment offices offering public sector jobs which <br /> are "stored" in job banks in order to take up any slack in private sector employment. <br /> • Local communities will use a process of broad stakeholder input and democratic <br /> decisionmaking to fairly implement these programs. <br /> • Pay-to-play prohibitions will ensure that campaign contributions or lobbying favors do not <br /> impact decision-making. <br /> • We will end unemployment in America once and for all by guaranteeing a job at a living <br /> wage for every American willing and able to work. <br /> 2. Worker's rights including the right to a living wage, to a safe workplace, to fair trade, and to <br /> organize a union at work without fear of firing or reprisal. <br /> 3. The right to quality health care which will be achieved through a single-payer Medicare-for- <br /> All program. <br /> 4. The right to a tuition-free, quality, federally funded, local controlled public education system <br /> from pre-school through college. We will also forgive student loan debt from the current era of <br /> unaffordable college education. <br /> 5. The right to decent affordable housing, including an immediate halt to all foreclosures and <br /> evictions. We will: <br /> • create a federal bank with local branches to take over homes with distressed mortgages and <br /> either restructure the mortgages to affordable levels, or if the occupants cannot afford a <br /> mortgage, rent homes to the occupants; <br /> • expand rental and home ownership assistance; <br /> • create ample public housing; and, <br /> • offer capital grants to non-profit developers of affordable housing until all people can obtain <br /> decent housing at no more than 25% of their income. <br /> 6. The right to accessible and affordable utilities—heat, electricity,phone, internet, and public <br /> transportation—through democratically run,publicly owned utilities that operate at cost, not for <br /> profit. <br />