Create new jobs and implement a $15 minimum wage
The agenda calls to raise the minimum wage across the nation and plans to create millions of new jobs. According to the People Charter, “put 16 million people to work immediately — upgrading our broken infrastructure, modernizing and retrofitting millions of homes and buildings, staffing schools, hospitals and health departments, protecting and restoring forest and wetlands, creating opportunities for family farmers and rural communities, and revitalizing American manufacturing.”