John Robert Badger 2028 | The People's Agenda
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Education, Work and Opportunity
Prepare Americans for life, reward work, and create more direct routes to stability.
Practical Life Education
Teach banking, budgeting, taxes, contracts, credit, and consumer rights beginning in elementary school.
Curriculum and Career Readiness
Protect core academics while expanding career exposure, skilled trades, civics, leadership, arts, and science.
Teacher Pay Protection
Create stronger salary standards, inflation protection, retention grants, and advanced certification bonuses.
Minimum Wage Modernization
Phase in a $25 federal minimum wage while protecting workers and helping small employers adjust.
Small Business Access
Simplify public contracting, disaster work, and service opportunities for qualified small businesses.
Housing, Families and Health
Make stability possible before hardship becomes a permanent crisis.
Housing Cost Stabilization
Address extreme housing costs, expand construction, and improve first time buyer access.
No Homeless America
Build housing capacity with services, employment support, and priority pathways for people in crisis.
Patient Rights and Medical Access
Improve record access, chronic illness care, billing transparency, patient advocacy, and telehealth.
Maternal and Infant Health
Improve outcome transparency, independent review, emergency response, and bias reduction.
Insurance Claim Fairness
Set decision and payment deadlines and strengthen remedies for unjustified delay.
Justice, Rights and Accountability
Make law visible, reviewable, understandable, and equal for the people who must live under it.
Courtroom Transparency
Record and preserve public proceedings while protecting minors, victims, privacy, and national security.
Equal Courtroom Treatment
Protect procedural dignity for self represented litigants and create review for repeated unequal treatment.
Expanded Legal Access
Support state regulated, competency based pathways for limited scope legal assistance.
Police Body Camera Access
Give directly involved people timely access to footage under clear release and redaction rules.
Investigation Accountability
Require proper logging, written decisions, and independent review of serious reports.
Corrections Oversight
Audit medical care, protect legal communication, publish complaint data, and establish independent review.
Bail and Pretrial Fairness
Base detention on demonstrated risk rather than a person’s ability to pay.
Automatic Record Relief
Clear eligible records after defined periods without costly and confusing petitions.
End Private Prisons
Phase out incarceration contracts that place profit incentives inside public punishment.
Marijuana Legalization and Record Relief
Create a regulated national framework and clear eligible low level marijuana records.
Immigration, Due Process and Family Unity
Enforce immigration law while protecting constitutional process, child welfare, family unity, and human dignity.
Immigrant Due Process, Family Unity, and Human Dignity
A complete framework for lawful enforcement, fair hearings, humane custody, family reunification, child-centered care, independent oversight, and remedies for documented government wrongdoing.
Democracy, Government and Digital Rights
Return public systems to public control and give every citizen a meaningful voice.
The Vote and the Tax
Protect eligible voters, restore voting rights after incarceration, and require tax consequences when a jurisdiction continues denying a citizen political representation because of a felony conviction.
Election Fairness
Promote fair district maps, transparent ballot access, and enforceable anti-gerrymandering standards.
Equal Voting Power
Pursue a lawful national path toward equal weight for every presidential vote.
Platform and Algorithm Fairness
Require transparency and meaningful appeals when digital systems shape political participation.
Public Records and Historical Transparency
Expand lawful declassification, digitization, and affordable access to public records.
Human Rights Reporting
Create usable reporting, evidence intake, referral, and escalation systems for serious rights concerns.
Privacy and Surveillance
Challenge suspicionless tracking and strengthen safeguards for vehicle and location data.
Veterans, Consumers and Everyday Government
End systems that turn ordinary paperwork and delays into years of hardship.
Veterans Benefits Without Delay
Activate baseline benefits promptly and establish enforceable processing accountability.
DMV Hardship Reform
Prevent fees and unrelated debt from becoming permanent barriers to lawful driving and work.
Consumer Protection
Create clearer complaints, stronger enforcement, and faster remedies for verified harm.
Government Shutdown Protection
Protect essential benefits and basic public services from political funding disputes.
Food Security, Benefits, Veterans and Public Accountability
Expand access to fresh food, modernize public benefits with due process, protect veterans, and preserve essential services through lawful federal action.
American Public Harvest Initiative
Support publicly accessible orchards, food forests, edible landscapes, and community gardens in areas facing food insecurity.
Community Garden Grants and Sustainable Growing
Expand accountable grants for community food projects using safe, sustainable, and evidence-based growing practices.
Imported Food Safety and Evidence-Based Enforcement
Strengthen inspection, laboratory, verification, and enforcement capacity for imported food using uniform safety standards.
SNAP Choice and National Program Standards
Seek clearer national rules that preserve household choice, nutrition access, transparency, and consistent administration.
Automated Benefits With Human Due Process
Use auditable technology to reduce benefit delays without allowing an algorithm to become the final unreviewable decision-maker.
Veterans Service, Discharge, and Individual Review
Strengthen individualized review of discharge circumstances without automatically converting AWOL or other misconduct cases.
Protect Earned Veterans Benefits and Support Families
Protect legitimate service-connected disability compensation while improving fraud review, family support, housing, caregiving, and mental-health services.
Government Shutdown Protection and Constitutional Accountability
Seek automatic funding protection for designated essential obligations while respecting constitutional limits on elected-official compensation.
Farms, Food and Clean Water
Protect the people who feed America and the health of the communities they serve.
Farmer Protection
Strengthen family farms, crop loss response, fair markets, and domestic food security.
Clean Food and Water
Expand testing, ingredient transparency, contaminant oversight, and rapid recalls.
Disaster and Community Response
Help local food providers and small businesses serve communities during emergencies.