2016
DEMOCRATIC PARTY
PLATFORM
AS APPROVED BY THE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM COMMITTEEJULY 8-9, 2016 - ORLANDO, FL
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREAMBLE ......................................................................................................................................1Raise Incomes and Restore Economic Security for the Middle Class ....................................3
Raising Workers’ Wages ............................................................................................................................3Protecting Workers’ Fundamental Rights...........................................................................................4Supporting Working Families ..................................................................................................................4Helping More Workers Share in Near-Record Corporate Profits ...............................................5Expanding Access to Affordable Housing and Homeownership ...............................................5Protecting and Expanding Social Security .........................................................................................5Ensuring a Secure and Dignified Retirement ....................................................................................6Revitalizing Our Nation’s Postal Service .............................................................................................6
Create Good-Paying Jobs .............................................................................................................7
Building 21st Century Infrastructure......................................................................................................7Fostering a Manufacturing Renaissance ..............................................................................................7Creating Good-Paying Clean Energy Jobs .........................................................................................8Pursuing Our Innovation Agenda: Science, Research, Education, and Technology ...........8Supporting America’s Small Businesses ..............................................................................................9Creating Jobs for America’s Young People .......................................................................................9
Fight for Economic Fairness and Against Inequality ...............................................................9
Reining in Wall Street and Fixing our Financial System ..............................................................10Promoting Competition by Stopping Corporate Concentration ..............................................11Making the Wealthy Pay Their Fair Share of Taxes ........................................................................11Promoting Trade That is Fair and Benefits American Workers ................................................12
Bring Americans Together and Remove Barriers to Opportunities ......................................13
Ending Systemic Racism .........................................................................................................................13Closing the Racial Wealth Gap ..............................................................................................................13Reforming our Criminal Justice System ............................................................................................13Fixing our Broken Immigration System .............................................................................................15Guaranteeing Civil Rights.................................................... ....................................................................16Guaranteeing Women’s Rights ...............................................................................................................17Guaranteeing Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights .................................................17Guaranteeing Rights for People with Disabilities ...........................................................................17Respecting Faith and Service .................................................................................................................17Investing in Rural America ......................................................................................................................18Ending Poverty and Investing in Communities Left Behind ......................................................18