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(vii) all undocumented workers have 
pathways to citizenship and full and equal 
access to all public benefits, including 
health, nutrition, and income support; 
(C) creating millions of new care jobs over 
the next decade, including as part of existing 
and new public jobs programs, subject to the 
same principles in subparagraph (B), in the 
context of the COVID–19 pandemic recovery, 
the Green New Deal, and any similar efforts to 
meet the challenges and opportunities of the 
21st century; 
(D) building and expanding zero-carbon, 
non-polluting, climate-safe infrastructure, both 
physical infrastructure and social infrastruc-
ture, to guarantee care to all people throughout 
the life cycle, moving the United States toward 
universal, public programs ensuring— 
(i) high-quality health care, including 
comprehensive and noncoercive mental 
health care coverage, substance use treat-
ment, and reproductive care, free at the 
point of service; 
(ii) free, high-quality home and com-
munity-based services, without income or 
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asset tests and without waiting lists, which 
would fix the institutional bias of the cur-
rent system, and allow people with disabil-
ities and older adults to receive needed 
support and live self-directed lives; 
(iii) free, high-quality childcare and 
early childhood education with a focus on 
the first 1,000 days of life, and robust, cul-
turally responsive, and diverse care set-
tings to achieve healthy child development; 
(iv) paid family and medical leave of 
at least 6 months, with full wage replace-
ment; and 
(v) additional support for unpaid care-
givers, 
people 
with 
disabilities, 
older 
adults, and children, with the goal of eradi-
cating child poverty; and 
(E) building and expanding other zero-car-
bon, non-polluting, climate-safe infrastructure 
and jobs that are intimately connected to the 
care infrastructure described in subparagraph 
(D), to meet the fundamental material, develop-
mental, emotional, and social needs of all peo-
ple, including— 
(i) clean air and water; 
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(ii) public, permanently affordable, 
and dignified housing and transit systems, 
integrated with adequate social services to 
support residents of all ages and abilities; 
(iii) safe, accessible infrastructure, in-
cluding public accommodations, schools, 
workplaces, housing, transit, and streets 
allowing for full mobility for all people; 
(iv) public education, with a focus on 
social and emotional learning, unleashing 
creativity in the arts and sciences, and 
educating and nurturing the whole child, 
and including fully funded programs for 
high-need students; 
(v) healthy, nourishing, and sustain-
able food systems that provide affordable, 
accessible, 
and 
culturally 
appropriate 
foods; 
(vi) comprehensive public health and 
emergency preparedness infrastructure, in-
cluding equitable, democratic response and 
recovery efforts during and after climate 
disasters; 
(vii) clear opportunities for, and the 
removal of barriers to, unionization and 
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collective action in all economic sectors, in-
cluding the service, technology, and gig 
work sectors; 
(viii) a Federal minimum wage of at 
least $15 an hour, indexed to the cost of 
living, and the elimination of subminimum 
wages for people with disabilities, tipped 
workers, and all other workers; 
(ix) expanded leisure time, with no 
loss in pay or benefits; 
(x) generous, paid sick days and vaca-
tion time; 
(xi) support for worker ownership, 
worker-owned cooperatives, and safety and 
democracy in the workplace, so that work-
ers have meaningful influence over their 
conditions of work and the decisions that 
affect their lives; 
(xii) adequate public services and pro-
grams to support all people in navigating 
economic and social challenges, including 
navigating life on a rapidly warming plan-
et, and to help all people unleash their full 
potential as human beings; 
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(xiii) public libraries, community cen-
ters, and other spaces that foster cre-
ativity, connection, mental health, and 
human development; 
(xiv) support for practicing and aspir-
ing artists, as well as institutions, venues, 
and platforms that empower and fairly 
compensate artists, bringing their work to 
wider audiences, and integrating the arts 
into community mental health, education, 
and resilience efforts; 
(xv) access to nature, public space, di-
verse forms of public recreation, and tech-
nology, including public broadband inter-
net; and 
(xvi) mechanisms for democratic over-
sight of data, algorithmic, and techno-
logical systems, along with worker and 
community participation in the develop-
ment and application of those systems, in 
service of expanding and improving care 
and social infrastructures; 
(3) any COVID–19 relief and economic recovery 
legislation must prioritize and invest in care infra-
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structure as a down payment on building an inter-
connected, holistic caregiving system that— 
(A) is the backbone of the economy and es-
sential to all people; and 
(B) celebrates the interdependence of all 
people; 
(4) unpaid caregivers deserve support, care 
workers deserve quality, high-paying, union jobs, 
people with disabilities and older adults deserve 
independence and self-determination, and every per-
son, at every stage of life, deserves to live, work, 
play, and care with dignity; and 
(5) our ultimate aim is to build an economy and 
society based on care for people, communities, and 
the planet we all share. 
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