• We need universal healthcare covering dental, vision, and mental health when our system still leaves too many unable to afford care, even if they have insurance.

• We need a windfall profits surtax to hold major corporations responsible for unfairly raising prices on working families under the cover of inflation worries.

• We need a new task force for domestic violence and child abuse to help the vulnerable escape circumstances beyond their control, making social workers first responders where possible.

• We need to subsidize vacant units as temporary housing for those without reliable homes and build more real affordable housing.

• We need free drug addiction recovery programs to help people dig out of despair from poor economic conditions.

• We need a full audit and review of the effectiveness of our education system.

• We need to establish two commissions to study implementing reparations, one each for American descendants of slavery and for those of Native American tribal affiliation.

• We need to invest in a technology strategy for climate change that transitions our state resolutely and steadily to all of the above except fossil fuels.

• We need a pilot program for offshore wind and tidal energy on the North Shore in consultation with fishing and whale-watching industries.

• We need to decrease the price of commuter rail.

• We need our technology strategy to include and invest in renewable energy, hydrogen fuel cells, carbon capture, and safe and meticulously regulated nuclear power, and to leverage non-fracked, vertically-drilled natural gas, the cleanest of the fossil fuels, as our primary transitional fuel.

• We need a pilot program for sea desalination for drinking water on the North Shore.

• We need to increase funding for climate resilience in infrastructure on our coast and crucially, to maintain and bolster our freshwater supply.

• We need to lessen our political reliance on federal government and build a Northeastern regional alliance for democracy and human rights (including abortion care) so we can build for the future when the federal government can’t or won’t.

• We need to build regional coalitions to foster policy change on issues like climate change, healthcare, and discrimination.

• We need to move to a top-two, more representative (RCV/STAR) primary system for electing public officials, which will immediately increase representation beyond the duopoly.

• We need increased collaboration and transparency between local and state government and the public, starting with more communication between mayors, city councils, and the state legislature.

• We need to develop innovative methods to hold the federal government accountable for undemocratic and unjust behavior.

• We need tax incentives for the creation and maintenance of unions.

• We need to build a new economy around hybrid work, including working from home.

• We need tax incentives for reorganization into and maintenance of worker cooperatives.

• We need to rethink infrastructure through new ideas, like a pilot project for self-healing roads.

• We need tax incentives for worker representation on corporate boards and greater employee stock ownership.

• We need to grant more workers overtime pay by substantially reducing exemptions that stiff workers.

• We need to lower taxes on the lower middle and working class.

• We need to raise taxes on the wealthy and large corporations.

• We need to amend the state constitution to implement a state marginal income tax, including for corporations.

• We need to put minimum wage increases on a track to catch up to labor productivity, especially for large companies.

• We need a ballot initiative at the state level proposing a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United v. FEC.