Three Big Moves to Improve American Lives ASAP
Where you get to live, what you get paid, and how you access health care should be policy priorities next year.
Americans could use more help.
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Someone on Twitter recently asked me an interesting question. If I were to pick three policies to improve material living standards for the vast majority of Americans, what would I choose?
Right now there are a lot of big ideas clamoring for the country’s attention and political capital: universal basic income, a federal $15 minimum wage, a job guarantee, child care benefits and free college, to name a few. But while all of these proposals deserve consideration -- and some deserve to be put into practice --the three areas I’d pick to concentrate on would be national health insurance, sectoral wage bargaining and cheaper housing.