The THRIVE Agenda

Pillar One:

Creating millions of good, safe jobs with access to unions.

We must invest in:

Millions of secure jobs with healthcare benefits
Upgrading our broken infrastructure
Building clean and affordable public transit
Replacing lead pipes for clean water
Expanding wind and solar power
Increasing jobs, wages, and benefits for the work of caring for children, the elderly, and the sick
Modernizing buildings to cut pollution and costs
Protecting and restoring wetlands, forests, and public lands
Supporting family farmers, agricultural workers, and rural communities
Creating high-skill, high-wage manufacturing jobs by expanding manufacturing of clean technologies

Job creation should ensure safe workplaces, family-sustaining wages, and protection of workers’ rights to organize.

Pillar Two:

It’s time to give all workers access to unions and penalize employers that try to stop union organizing.
We must expand union representation for all workers, particularly women and people of color.
THRIVE ensures that millions of new clean energy jobs, existing low-wage jobs, and frontline jobs become the family-supporting jobs that everyone deserves.

Pillar Three:

The THRIVE Agenda calls for 40 percent of investment to go to communities that have been excluded, oppressed, and harmed by unjust practices to support job creation, pollution reduction, and climate resilience.
Investments will be focused on Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities; working-class communities; and communities facing environmental injustice.
It’s key that the most affected communities have the power to democratically plan, implement, and administer these projects.

Pillar Four:

It is long past due that the United States government recognized the sovereignty of Native Nations.
The THRIVE Agenda calls for strengthening Tribal sovereignty and enforcing Indian treaty rights.
THRIVE includes the codification of Free, Prior, and Informed Consent so that Indigenous peoples can determine the outcome of all decision-making that affects them.

Pillar Five:

No one should have to live in a community marred by toxic air, polluted water, or the associated health hazards.
Everyone deserves clean water. Everyone deserves clean air. These are not controversial ideas, and yet Black, Brown, Indigenous, and working-class communities across the country have consistently been denied these basic rights and sacrificed to the fossil fuel industry.
We must curtail air, water, and land pollution; replace lead pipes; and address the health and environmental impacts of toxic pollution.
Under the THRIVE Agenda, communities affected by environmental injustice will receive the vital health and mental health resources they need, as well as access to healthy food, schools, hospitals, child care, senior care, and care for individuals with disabilities.

Pillar Six:

The plan will keep global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius to avoid increasing climate disasters and build climate resilience to keep communities safe.
New investments will spur the largest expansion in history of clean, renewable energy, emissions reductions, climate resilience, and sustainable resource use.
We will transform the agriculture sector so that family farms and farming communities are fairly paid for sustainable, domestic production of healthy, nutritious food.

Pillar Seven:

Workers impacted by the pandemic, climate change, and other economic shocks will receive guaranteed pay and benefits, including full pension, healthcare and early retirement, and equitable job placement in new industries.
Communities impacted by economic transitions will not be left to wither but will be reinvigorated with investment in economic diversification; high-quality job creation; retooling and conversion of factories; and reclamation and remediation of closed facilities.

Pillar Eight:

The THRIVE Agenda will create new public institutions to strategically mobilize investments that tackle the interlocking crises of racial, economic, and climate injustice.
As we rebuild vital public services and strengthen social infrastructure, new public institutions will help ensure universal access to critical resources.
Democratic governance and accountability in these new public institutions will ensure equitable access to the investments of the THRIVE Agenda.