15 New Ideas

New Challenges: New Ideas

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America today faces profound challenges. As progressives, we believe America’s path forward requires that our leaders offer bold, new approaches built on careful analysis and common ideals.

The pages that follow lay out 15 new ideas from Center for American Progress experts for tackling America’s challenges head-on. Each page outlines an idea and provides links to more detailed treatments. While the ideas are new, they are grounded in values as old as our country: offering opportunity to all, building strong communities, creating open and fair government, and promoting a more just and secure world.

Offering Opportunity for All: Build an opportunity nation where every hard-working person—regardless of background—can realize his or her dreams through education, decent work and fair pay.

• Create a Fair and Simple Tax Code
• Extend Learning Time
• Improve Teacher Quality
• Increase College Opportunity and Completion
• Reduce Debt Burdens by Fighting Abusive Lending
• Strengthen Pensions: Universal 401(k)

Promoting a Just and Secure World: Use America’s awesome strength to bring the world together, not pull it apart.

• Use Integrated Power
• Strengthen the All-Volunteer Army
• Grow the World’s Energy Future
• Invest in Global Equity

Building Strong Communities: Reawaken America’s conscience—our sense of shared and personal responsibility—to build healthy, vibrant communities.

• Provide Universal Health Coverage
• Use Health Care to Strengthen the U.S. Auto Industry
• Provide Comprehensive Worker Adjustment Assistance

Creating Open and Fair Government: Reform government so that it is of, by, and for the people: open, effective, and committed to the common good.

• Bring Government Decisionmaking into the Information Age
• Impose New Rules to Curb Abuses of Congressional Power

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