Repair. Build. Transform.

• Strengthen FDA and USDA inspection, testing, traceability, and enforcement.
• Build modern national food-tracing systems capable of identifying contaminated products quickly.
• Increase inspection capacity for high-risk processing facilities and penalties for repeated or intentional violations.

• Increase long-term public investment through universities, national laboratories, NIH, NSF, NASA, DOE, USDA, and related institutions.
• Prioritize medicine, agriculture, energy, materials, climate resilience, computing, robotics, and transportation.

• Reduce dependence of school quality on neighborhood property wealth.
• Create stronger state and federal funding mechanisms so children receive high-quality education regardless of ZIP code.
• Invest in teachers, vocational education, laboratories, libraries, special education, arts, music, agriculture, engineering, computer science, and skilled trades.

Public education funding should primarily support the public system available to every child. Phase out voucher programs and similar subsidies that redirect public funds toward private institutions while preserving families’ right to choose private education.

• Limit excessive corporate concentration in agriculture.
• Strengthen antitrust enforcement across meatpacking, seeds, fertilizer, processing, and distribution.
• Restrict large non-agricultural corporations and investment firms from accumulating excessive farmland.
• Support family farms, cooperatives, beginning farmers, and locally owned food production.

• Expand school breakfast and lunch and ensure children have reliable access to nutritious food year-round.
• Strengthen WIC, SNAP, food banks, community kitchens, and local food networks.
• Encourage public institutions to buy regionally where practical.

• Strengthen antitrust enforcement against monopolies and excessive concentration.
• Review industries where consolidation has reduced meaningful competition.
• Prevent dominant firms from using essential platforms, infrastructure, land, IP, or supply chains primarily to extract rents.

Markets work best when businesses actually have to compete.

• Create a modern successor to the Civilian Conservation Corps open to any adult who wants to participate.
• Provide paid work, training, healthcare, and temporary housing where necessary.
• Restore forests, wetlands, parks, watersheds, degraded land, public spaces, and assist after disasters.

If someone wants to work, society should be capable of finding useful work that needs doing.

• Expand generation and transmission capacity.
• Support solar, wind, geothermal, hydroelectric, storage, nuclear, and other low-carbon technologies according to regional conditions.
• Modernize the grid for distributed generation, storage, electric transportation, and increasing demand.

• Install solar on suitable public buildings, schools, libraries, parking facilities, universities, military installations, and transit sites.
• Add batteries where useful and solar canopies with EV charging where practical.
• Design new public buildings to generate a significant share of their own power where site conditions allow.

• Use grants, low-interest financing, and direct-install programs for solar, batteries, heat pumps, weatherization, and efficiency improvements.
• Prioritize middle- and lower-income households, not only households that can front the capital for a tax credit.
• Support community solar and neighborhood-scale storage.

• Shift incentives toward affordability and charging infrastructure.
• Electrify government fleets, school buses, transit buses, postal vehicles, and other predictable fleets.
• Update buildings, apartments, workplaces, parking, and highway infrastructure for widespread electric transportation.

Transition toward universal publicly financed healthcare. Replace fragmented employer-centered insurance with a broad national risk pool while allowing delivery through independent, nonprofit, and public providers. Healthcare should follow the person, not the employer.

• Encourage substantially more housing while protecting individual property rights.
• Reform zoning that unnecessarily blocks starter homes, duplexes, townhouses, apartments, and accessory dwellings.
• Discourage speculative vacancy and large-scale institutional acquisition of residential housing.

Support local manufacturing, repair businesses, farms, trades, cooperatives, and small businesses, while helping communities retain some local capacity for food, energy, repair, construction, and essential goods.

Collective Capital does not seek equal wealth. We seek broad access to wealth creation.

• Encourage employee ownership, stock programs, profit sharing, cooperatives, retirement investment, homeownership, and small-business formation.
• Explore publicly seeded investment accounts for children and young adults.
• Reform taxation so extreme inherited concentrations cannot compound indefinitely while protecting ordinary family inheritance.
• Prevent dominant firms from using accumulated wealth to purchase competitors or block new entrants.
• Discourage excessive institutional accumulation of housing, farmland, and other limited assets.

Capital should circulate, not calcify.

Gradually redesign highways, cities, towns, freight corridors, transit systems, and public spaces around electric transportation, autonomous systems where proven useful, rail, buses, cycling, and pedestrian networks. Cars remain useful—but should not be the only practical option.

Develop modern reactor designs, standardized construction, improved fuel cycles and waste management, and domestic nuclear engineering and supply-chain capability as part of an abundant low-carbon system.

Gradually make public community colleges, trade schools, and state universities tuition-free for qualified residents, while expanding apprenticeships and vocational education. The goal is not simply more degrees, but a more capable population.

Modernize drinking-water systems, eliminate lead service lines, manage watersheds and aquifers for the long term, expand recycling and stormwater capture, restore wetlands, and prepare drought-prone regions before shortages become emergencies.

Restore forests, prairies, wetlands, rivers, coastlines, watersheds, and degraded agricultural land; create wildlife corridors; and support agriculture that improves soil while remaining productive.

Build networks of farms, processors, storage, distribution, seeds, and food reserves so regions maintain enough local capacity to survive major disruptions while remaining part of a productive national and international food economy.

Maintain independent 25-, 50-, and 100-year infrastructure plans ranked by measurable public benefit, resilience, lifecycle cost, environmental impact, and productive value. Planning should not restart every four years.