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Unemployment strikes hardest at workers over 40, minority groups, young people, and women. | unemployment rate | This text is about unemployment rate. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
The right to a job requires the restoration of full support for collective bargaining and the repeal of the anti-labor excesses which have been written into our labor laws. Under Democratic leadership a sound national policy was developed, expressed particularly by the Wagner National Labor Relations Act, which guaranteed the rights of workers to organize and to bargain collectively. But the Republican Administration has replaced this sound policy with a national anti-labor policy. The Republican Taft-Hartley Act seriously weakened unions in their efforts to bring economic justice to the millions of American workers who remain unorganized. By administrative action, anti-labor personnel appointed by the Republicans to the National Labor Relations Board have made the Taft-Hartley Act even more restrictive in its application than in its language. Thus the traditional goal of the Democratic Partyíïto give all workers the right to organize and bargain collectivelyíïhas still not been achieved. We pledge the enactment of an affirmative labor policy which will encourage free collective bargaining through the growth and development of free and responsible unions. Millions of workers just now seeking to organize are blocked by Federally authorized "right-to-work" laws, unreasonable limitations on the right to picket, and other hampering legislative and administrative provisions. Again, in the new Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act, the Republican Administration perverted the constructive effort of the Democratic Congress to deal with improper activities of a few in labor and management by turning that Act into a means of restricting the legitimate rights of the vast majority of working men and women in honest labor unions. This law likewise strikes hardest at the weak or poorly organized, and it fails to deal with abuses of management as vigorously as with those of labor. We will repeal the authorization for "right-to-work" laws, limitations on the rights to strike, to picket peacefully and to tell the public the facts of a labor dispute, and other anti-labor features of the Taft-Hartley Act and the 1959 Act. This unequivocal pledge for the repeal of the anti-labor and restrictive provisions of those laws will encourage collective bargaining and strengthen and support the free and honest labor movement. | labor unions | This text is about labor unions. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
Basic to the achievement of stable labor-management relations is leadership from the White House. The Republican Administration has failed to provide such leadership. It failed to foresee the deterioration of labor-management relations in the steel industry last year. When a national emergency was obviously developing, it failed to forestall it. When the emergency came, the Administration's only solution was government-by-injunction. A Democratic President, through his leadership and concern, will produce a better climate for continuing constructive relationships between labor and management. He will have periodic White House conferences between labor and management to consider their mutual problems before they reach the critical stage. A Democratic President will use the vast fact-finding facilities that are available to inform himself, and the public, in exercising his leadership in labor disputes for the benefit of the nation as a whole. If he needs more such facilities, or authority, we will provide them. We further pledge that in the administration of all labor legislation we will restore the level of integrity, competence and sympathetic understanding required to carry out the intent of such legislation. | labor unions | This text is about labor unions. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
The right to a job requires planning for automation, so that men and women will be trained and available to meet shifting employment needs. We will conduct a continuing analysis of the nation's manpower resources and of measures which may be required to assure their fullest development and use. We will provide the Government leadership necessary to insure that the blessings of automation do not become burdens of widespread unemployment. For the young and the technologically displaced workers, we will provide the opportunity for training and retraining that equips them for jobs to be filled. | employment training | This text is about employment training. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
3. "The right of every farmer to raise and sell his products at a return which will give him and his family a decent living." | agriculture | This text is about agriculture. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
We shall put behind us once and for all the timidity with which our Government has viewed our abundance of food and fiber. We will set new high levels of food consumption both at home and abroad. As long as many Americans and hundreds of millions of people in other countries remain underfed, we shall regard these agricultural riches, and the family farmers who produce them, not as a liability but as a national asset. The Democratic Administration will inaugurate a national food and fiber policy for expanded use of our agricultural abundance. | agriculture | This text is about agriculture. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
We will use the food stamp programs authorized to feed needy children, the aged and the unemployed. We will expand and improve the school lunch and milk programs. | low-income assistance | This text is about low-income assistance. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
We will expand research into new industrial uses of agricultural products. | agriculture r&d | This text is about agriculture r&d. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
With wise management of our food abundance we will expand trade between nations, support economic and human development programs, and combat famine. | foreign trade | This text is about foreign trade. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
Unimaginative, outmoded Republican policies which fail to use these productive capacities of our farms have been immensely costly to our nation. They can and will be changed. While farmers have raised their productive efficiency to record levels, Republican farm policies have forced their income to drop by 30%. Tens of thousands of farm families have been bankrupted and forced off the land. | agriculture | This text is about agriculture. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
This has happened despite the fact that the Secretary of Agriculture has spent more on farm programs than all previous Secretaries in history combined. Farmers acting individually or in small groups are helpless to protect their incomes from sharp declines. Their only recourse is to produce more, throwing production still further out of balance with demand and driving prices down further. This disastrous downward cycle can be stopped only by effective farm programs sympathetically administered with the assistance of democratically elected farmer committees. The Democratic Administration will work to bring about full parity income for farmers in all segments of agriculture by helping them to balance farm production with the expanding needs of the nation and the world. Measures to this end include production and marketing quotas measured in terms of barrels, bushels and bales, loans on basic commodities at not less than 90% of parity, production payments, commodity purchases, and marketing orders and agreements. | subsidies to farmers | This text is about subsidies to farmers. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
We are convinced that a successful combination of these approaches will cost considerably less than present Republican programs which have failed. We will encourage agricultural cooperatives by expanding and liberalizing existing credit facilities and developing new facilities if necessary to assist them in extending their marketing and purchasing activities, and we will protect cooperatives from punitive taxation. | agriculture | This text is about agriculture. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
Farm families have been among those victimized most severely by Republican tight-money policies. Young people have been barred from entering agriculture. Giant corporations and other non-farmers, with readier access to credit and through vertical integration methods, have supplanted hundreds of farm families and caused the bankruptcy of many others. The Democratic Party is committed by tradition and conviction to preservation of family agriculture. | agriculture | This text is about agriculture. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
Many families in America's rural counties are still living in poverty because of inadequate resources and opportunity. This blight and personal desperation should have received national priority attention long ago. The new Democratic Administration will begin at once to eradicate long-neglected rural blight. We will help people help themselves with extended and supervised credit for farm improvement, local industrial development, improved vocational training and other assistance to those wishing to change to non-farm employment, and with the fullest development of commercial and recreational possibilities. This is one of the major objectives of the area redevelopment program, twice vetoed by the Republican President. | rural development | This text is about rural development. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
The rural electric cooperatives celebrate this year the twenty-fifth anniversary of the creation of the Rural Electrification Administration under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The Democratic Congress has successfully fought the efforts of the Republican Administration to cut off REA loans and force high-interest-rate policies on this great rural enterprise. We will maintain interest rates for REA co-ops and public power districts at the levels provided in present law. We deplore the Administration's failure to provide the dynamic leadership necessary for encouraging loans to rural users for generation of power where necessary. We promise the co-ops active support in meeting the ever-growing demand for electric power and telephone service, to be filled on a complete area-coverage basis without requiring benefits for special-interest power groups. | electricity | This text is about electricity. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
In every way we will seek to help the men, women, and children whose livelihood comes from the soil to achieve better housing, education, health, and decent earnings and working conditions. All these goals demand the leadership of a Secretary of Agriculture who is conversant with the technological and economic aspects of farm problems, and who is sympathetic with the objectives of effective farm legislation not only for farmers but for the best interest of the nation as a whole. | agriculture | This text is about agriculture. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
We will help create an economy in which small businesses can take root, grow, and flourish. We Democrats pledge:1. Action to aid small business in obtaining credit and equity capital at reasonable rates. Small business which must borrow to stay alive has been a particular victim of the high-interest policies of the Republican administration. The loan program of the Small Business Administration should be accelerated, and the independence of that agency preserved. The Small Business Investment Act of 1958 must be administered with a greater sense of its importance and possibilities. | small businesses | This text is about small businesses. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
We favor permitting all firms to have access at reasonable rates to patented inventions resulting from Government-financed research and development contracts. | copyrights and patents | This text is about copyrights and patents. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
We favor strengthening the Robinson-Patman Act to protect small business against price discrimination. | small businesses | This text is about small businesses. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
3. A more equitable share of Government contracts to small and independent business. | small businesses | This text is about small businesses. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
We will move from almost complete reliance on negotiation in the award of Government contracts toward open, competitive bidding. | procurement & contractors | This text is about procurement & contractors. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
5. "The right of every family to a decent home." Today our rate of home building is less than that of ten years ago. A healthy, expanding economy will enable us to build two million homes a year, in wholesome neighborhoods, for people of all incomes. At this rate, within a single decade we can clear away our slums and assure every American family a decent place to live. Republican policies have led to a decline of the home building industry and the production of fewer homes. | housing | This text is about housing. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
We support a housing construction goal of more than two million homes a year. | housing | This text is about housing. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
Most of the increased construction will be priced to meet the housing needs of middleíïand low-income families who now live in substandard housing and are priced out of the market for decent homes. Our housing programs will provide for rental as well as sales housing. | low-income assistance | This text is about low-income assistance. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
They will permit expanded cooperative housing programs and sharply stepped-up rehabilitation of existing homes. | housing | This text is about housing. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
Even with this new and flexible approach, there will still be need for a substantial low-rent public housing program authorizing as many units as local communities require and are prepared to build. | low-income assistance | This text is about low-income assistance. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
6. "The right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health." Illness is expensive. | health | This text is about health. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
Many Americans have neither incomes nor insurance protection to enable them to pay for modern health care. | insurance | This text is about insurance. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
For young and old alike, we need more medical schools, more hospitals, more research laboratories to speed the final conquest of major killers. | health | This text is about health. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
Fifty million Americansíïmore than a fourth of our peopleíïhave no insurance protection against the high cost of illness. For the rest, private health insurance pays, on the average, only about one-third of the cost of medical care. The problem is particularly acute among the 16 million Americans over 65 years old, and among disabled workers, widows and orphans. Most of these have low incomes and the elderly among them suffer two to three times as much illness as the rest of the population. | insurance | This text is about insurance. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
The Republican Administration refused to acknowledge any national responsibility for health care for elder citizens until forced to do so by an increasingly outraged demand. Then, its belated proposal was a cynical sham built around a degrading test based on means or incomeíïa "pauper's oath." The most practicable way to provide health protection for older people is to use the contributory machinery of the Social Security system for insurance covering hospital bills and other high-cost medical services. For those relatively few of our older people who have never been eligible for Social Security coverage, we shall provide corresponding benefits by appropriations from the general revenue. | health | This text is about health. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
To ease the growing shortage of doctors and other medical personnel we propose Federal aid for constructing, expanding and modernizing schools of medicine, dentistry, nursing and public health. We are deeply concerned that the high cost of medical education is putting this profession beyond the means of most American families. We will provide scholarships and other assistance to break through the financial barriers to medical education. | health care manpower | This text is about health care manpower. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
Mental patients fill more than half the hospital beds in the country today. We will provide greatly increased Federal support for psychiatric research and training, and community mental health programs, to help bring back thousands of our hospitalized mentally ill to full and useful lives in the community. | mental health | This text is about mental health. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
We pledge a campaign to eliminate discrimination in employment due to age. As a first step we will prohibit such discrimination by Government contractors and subcontractors. | age discrimination | This text is about age discrimination. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
We shall provide decent and suitable housing which older persons can afford. Specifically we shall move ahead with the program of direct Government loans for housing for older people initiated in the Housing Act of 1959, a program which the Republican Administration has sought to kill. | elderly housing | This text is about elderly housing. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
We shall take Federal action in support of state efforts to bring standards of care in nursing homes and other institutions for the aged up to desirable minimums. We shall support demonstration and training programs to translate proven research into action in such fields as health, nutritional guidance, home care, counseling, recreational activity. | long-term health care | This text is about long-term health care. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
We support legislation which will guarantee to women equality of rights under the law, including equal pay for equal work. | gender discrimination | This text is about gender discrimination. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
The bureau would assist in the solution of problems arising from the re settlement of immigrants and migrants within our own country, and in resolving religious, social and other tensions where they arise. | immigration | This text is about immigration. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
8. "The right to a good education." America's young people are our greatest resource for the future. Each of them deserves the education which will best develop his potentialities. We shall act at once to help in building the classrooms and employing the teachers that are essential if the right to a good education is to have genuine meaning for all the youth of America in the decade ahead. | education | This text is about education. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
As a national investment in our future we propose a program of loans and scholarship grants to assure that qualified young Americans will have full opportunity for higher education, at the institutions of their choice, regardless of the income of their parents. | higher education | This text is about higher education. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
The new Democratic Administration will end eight years of official neglect of our educational system. America's education faces a financial crisis. The tremendous increase in the number of children of school and college age has far outrun the available supply of educational facilities and qualified teachers. The classroom shortage alone is interfering with the education of 10 million students. America's teachers, parents and school administrators have striven courageously to keep up with the increased challenge of education. So have states and local communities. Education absorbs two-fifths of all their revenue. With limited resources, private educational institutions have shouldered their share of the burden. Only the Federal Government is not doing its part. For eight years, measures for the relief of the educational crisis have been held up by the cynical maneuvers of the Republican Party in Congress and the White House. We believe that America can meet its educational obligations only with generous Federal financial support, within the traditional framework of local control. The assistance will take the form of Federal grants to states for educational purposes they deem most pressing, including classroom construction and teachers' salaries. It will include aid for the construction of academic facilities as well as dormitories at colleges and universities. | education | This text is about education. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
We pledge further Federal support for all phases of vocational education for youth and adults; | vocational education | This text is about vocational education. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
They are the means to a goal that is now within our reachíïthe final eradication in America of the age-old evil of poverty. | low-income assistance | This text is about low-income assistance. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
Water, timber and grazing lands, recreational areas in our parks, shores, forests and wildernesses, energy, minerals, even pure airíïall are feeling the press of enormously increased demands of a rapidly growing population. | public lands | This text is about public lands. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
The new Democratic Administration, with the vision that built a TVA and a Grand Coulee, will develop and conserve that heritage for the use of this and future generations. We will reverse Republican policies under which America's resources have been wasted, depleted, underdeveloped, and recklessly given away. | public lands | This text is about public lands. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
We favor the best use of our natural resources, which generally means adoption of the multiple-purpose principle to achieve full development for all the many functions they can serve. | public lands | This text is about public lands. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
Yet President Eisenhower vetoed a Democratic bill to give them more financial help in building sewage treatment plants. A Democratic President will sign such a bill. | waste disposal | This text is about waste disposal. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
Democrats will step up research on pollution control, giving special attention to:1. the rapidly growing problem of air pollution from industrial plants, automobile exhausts, and other sources, and | air pollution | This text is about air pollution. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
2. disposal of chemical and radioactive wastes, some of which are now being dumped off our coasts without adequate knowledge of the potential consequences. | hazardous waste | This text is about hazardous waste. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
As population grows and the work week shortens and transportation becomes easier and speedier, the need for outdoor recreation facilities mounts. We must act quickly to retain public access to the oceans, gulfs, rivers, streams, lakes and reservoirs, and their shorelines, and to reserve adequate camping and recreational areas while there is yet time. Areas near major population centers are particularly needed. The new Democratic Administration will work to improve and extend recreation opportunities in national parks and monuments, forests, and river development projects, and near metropolitan areas. Emphasis will be on attractive, low-cost facilities for all the people and on preventing undue commercialization. The National Park System is still incomplete; in particular, the few remaining suitable shorelines must be included in it. A national wilderness system should be created for areas already set aside as wildernesses. The system should be extended but only after careful consideration by the Congress of the value of areas for competing uses. Recreational needs of the surrounding area should be given important consideration in disposing of Federally owned lands. | national parks | This text is about national parks. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
The Republican Administration would turn the clock back to the days before the New Deal, in an effort to divert the benefits of the great natural energy resources from all the people to a favored few. It has followed for many years a "no new starts" policy. | energy | This text is about energy. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
It has closed the pilot plant on getting oil from shale. | natural gas & oil | This text is about natural gas & oil. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
We reject this philosophy and these policies. The people are entitled to use profitably what they already own. The Democratic Administration instead will foster the development of efficient regional giant power systems from all sources, including water, tidal, and nuclear power, to supply low-cost electricity to all retail electric systems, public, private, and cooperative. The Democratic Administration will continue to develop "yardsticks" for measuring the rates of private utility systems. | energy | This text is about energy. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
This means meeting the needs of rural electric cooperatives for low-interest loans for distribution, transmission and generation facilities; | electricity | This text is about electricity. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
Federal transmission facilities, where appropriate, to provide efficient low-cost power supply; and strict enforcement of the public-preference clause in power marketing. The Democratic Administration will support continued study and research on energy fuel resources, including new sources in wind and sun. | energy | This text is about energy. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
The $15 billion national investment in atomic energy should be protected as a part of the public domain. | nuclear energy | This text is about nuclear energy. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
The record of the Republican Administration in handling the public domain is one of complete lethargy. It has failed to secure existing assets. In some cases, it has given away priceless resources for plunder by private corporations, as in the A1 Sarena mining incident and the secret leasing of game refuges to favored oil interests. | public lands | This text is about public lands. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
The new Democratic Administration will develop balanced land and forest policies suited to the needs of a growing America. This means intensive forest management on a multiple-use and sustained-yield basis, reforestation of burnt-over lands, building public access roads, range reseeding and improvement, intensive work in watershed management, concern for small business operations, and insuring free public access to public lands for recreational uses. America uses half the minerals produced in the entire Free World. Yet our mining industry is in what may be the initial phase of a serious long-term depression. Sound policy requires that we strengthen the domestic mining industry without interfering with adequate supplies of needed materials at reasonable costs. We pledge immediate efforts toward the establishment of a realistic long-range minerals policy. The new Democratic Administration will begin intensive research on scientific prospecting for mineral deposits. We will speed up the geologic mapping of the country, with emphasis on Alaska. We will resume research and development work on use of low-grade mineral reserves, especially oil shale, lignites, iron ore taconite, and radioactive minerals. These efforts have been halted or cut back by the Republican Administration. | public lands | This text is about public lands. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
Charges for commercial use of public lands will be brought into line with benefits received. | public lands | This text is about public lands. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
3. Federal aid for comprehensive metropolitan transportation programs, including bus and rail mass transit, commuter railroads as well as highway programs, and construction of civil airports. | mass transportation | This text is about mass transportation. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
5. Expansion of park systems to meet the recreation needs of our growing population. | national parks | This text is about national parks. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
The Federal Government must recognize the financial burdens placed on local governments, urban and rural alike, by Federal installations and land holdings. | intergovernmental relations | This text is about intergovernmental relations. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
Over the past seven years, we have watched the steady weakening of the nation's transportation system. | transportation | This text is about transportation. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
Airports and airways lag far behind the needs of the jet age. | air travel | This text is about air travel. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
To meet this challenge we will establish a national transportation policy, designed to coordinate and modernize our facilities for transportation by road, rail, water, and air. | transportation | This text is about transportation. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
The jet age has made rapid improvement in air safety imperative. Rather than "an orderly withdrawal" from the airport grant programs as proposed by the Republican Administration, we pledge to expand the program to accommodate growing air traffic. | air travel | This text is about air travel. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
Development of our inland waterways, our harbors, and Great Lakes commerce has been held back by the Republican President. We pledge the improvement of our rivers and harbors by new starts and adequate maintenance. A strong and efficient American-flag merchant marine is essential to peacetime commerce and defense emergencies. Continued aid for ship construction and operation to offset cost differentials favoring foreign shipping is essential to these goals. | maritime transportation | This text is about maritime transportation. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
The Republican Administration has slowed down, stretched out and greatly increased the costs of the interstate highway program. The Democratic Party supports the highway program embodied in the Acts of 1956 and 1958 and the principle of Federal-state partnership in highway construction. We commend the Democratic Congress for establishing a special committee which has launched an extensive investigation of this highway program. Continued scrutiny of this multi-billion-dollar highway program can prevent waste, inefficiency and graft and maintain the public's confidence. | highways | This text is about highways. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
The nation's railroads are in particular need of freedom from burdensome regulation to enable them to compete effectively with other forms of transportation. | railroad travel | This text is about railroad travel. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
We also support Federal assistance in meeting certain capital needs, particularly for urban mass transportation. | mass transportation | This text is about mass transportation. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
The Republican Administration has remained incredibly blind to the prospects of space exploration. It has failed to pursue space programs with a sense of urgency at all close to their importance to the future of the world. It has allowed the Communists to hit the moon first, and to launch substantially greater payloads. The Republican program is a catchall of assorted projects with no clearly defined, long-range plan of research. The new Democratic Administration will press forward with our national space program in full realization of the importance of space accomplishments to our national security and our international prestige. We shall reorganize the program to achieve both efficiency and speedy execution. We shall bring top scientists into positions of responsibility. We shall undertake long-term basic research in space science and propulsion. We shall initiate negotiations leading toward the international regulation of space. | space technology | This text is about space technology. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
The United States became pre-eminent in the development of atomic energy under Democratic Administrations. The Republican Administration, despite its glowing promises of "Atoms for Peace," has permitted the gradual deterioration of United States leadership in atomic development both at home and abroad. In order to restore United States leadership in atomic development, the new Democratic Administration will:1. Restore truly nonpartisan and vigorous administration of the vital atomic energy program. 2. Continue the development of the various promising experimental and prototype atomic power plants which show promise, and provide increasing support for longer-range projects at the frontiers of atomic energy application. 3. Continue to preserve and support national laboratories and other Federal atomic installations as the foundation of technical progress and a bulwark of national defense. | nuclear energy | This text is about nuclear energy. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
4. Accelerate the Rover nuclear rocket project and auxiliary power facilities so as to achieve world leadership in peaceful outer space exploration. | space technology | This text is about space technology. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
5. Give reality to the United States international atoms-for-peace programs, and continue and expand technological assistance to underdeveloped countries. | international affairs | This text is about international affairs. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
6. Consider measures for improved organization and procedure for radiation protection and reactor safety, including a strengthening of the role of the Federal Radiation Council, and the separation of quasi-judicial functions in reactor safety regulations. | nuclear energy | This text is about nuclear energy. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
7. Provide a balanced and flexible nuclear defense capability, including the augmentation of the nuclear submarine fleet. | defense procurement | This text is about defense procurement. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
We shall reform the processes of Government in all branchesíïExecutive, Legislative, and Judicial. | government operations | This text is about government operations. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
We shall appoint to these agencies men of ability and independent judgment who understand that their function is to regulate these industries in the public interest. We promise a thorough review of existing agency practices, with an eye toward speedier decisions, and a clearer definition of what constitutes the public interest. The Democratic Party condemns the usurpation by the Executive of the powers and functions of any of the independent agencies and pledges the restoration of the independence of such agencies and the protection of their integrity of action, | bureaucracy | This text is about bureaucracy. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
The Republican policy has been to treat the United States postal service as a liability instead of a great investment in national enlightenment, social efficiency and economic betterment. Constant curtailment of service has inconvenienced every citizen. A program must be undertaken to establish the Post Office Department as a model of efficiency and service. We pledge ourselves to:1. Restore the principle that the postal service is a public service. 2. Separate the public service costs from those to be borne by the users of the mails. 3. Continue steady improvement in working conditions and wage scales, reflecting increasing productivity. 4. Establish a long-range program for research and capital improvements compatible with the highest standards of business efficiency. | postal service | This text is about postal service. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
In recent years, we have been faced with a shocking increase in crimes of all kinds. | law and crime | This text is about law and crime. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
The capital city of our nation should be a symbol of democracy to people throughout the world. The Democratic Party reaffirms its long-standing support of home rule for the District of Columbia, and pledges to enact legislation permitting voters of the District to elect their own local government. We urge the legislatures of the 50 states to ratify the 23rd Amendment, passed by the Democratic Congress, to give District citizens the right to participate in Presidential elections. We also support a Constitutional amendment giving the District voting representation in Congress. | capital city | This text is about capital city. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
We believe that the voters of the Virgin Islands should have the right to elect their own Governor, to have a delegate in the Congress of the United States and to have the right to vote in national elections for a President and Vice President of the United States. The social, economic, and political progress of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico is a testimonial to the sound enabling legislation, and to the sincerity and understanding with which the people of the 50 states and Puerto Rico are meeting their joint problems. The Democratic Party, under whose administration the Commonwealth status was established, is entitled to great credit for providing the opportunity which the people of Puerto Rico have used so successfully. Puerto Rico has become a show place of world-wide interest, a tribute to the benefits of the principles of self-determination. Further benefits for Puerto Rico under these principles are certain to follow. | dependencies & territories | This text is about dependencies & territories. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
In an age of mass production, distribution, and advertising, consumers require effective Government representation and protection. | consumer safety | This text is about consumer safety. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
We propose a consumer counsel, backed by a suitable staff, to speak for consumers in the formulation of Government policies and represent consumers in administrative proceedings. | consumer safety | This text is about consumer safety. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
The consumer also has a right to know the cost of credit when he borrows money. We shall enact Federal legislation requiring the vendors of credit to provide a statement of specific credit charges and what these charges cost in terms of true annual interest. | consumer finance | This text is about consumer finance. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
The quality of medical care furnished to the disabled veterans has deteriorated under the Republican Administration. We shall work for an increased availability of facilities for all veterans in need and we shall move with particular urgency to fulfill the need for expanded domiciliary and nursing-home facilities. | health | This text is about health. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
We recognize the unique legal and moral responsibility of the Federal Government for Indians in restitution for the injustice that has sometimes been done them. We therefore pledge prompt adoption of a program to assist Indian tribes in the full development of their human and natural resources and to advance the health, education, and economic well-being of Indian citizens while preserving their cultural heritage. Free consent of the Indian tribes concerned shall be required before the Federal Government makes any change in any Federal-Indian treaty or other contractual relationship. The new Democratic Administration will bring competent, sympathetic, and dedicated leadership to the administration of Indian affairs which will end practices that have eroded Indian rights and resources, reduced the Indians' land base and repudiated Federal responsibility. Indian claims against the United States can and will he settled promptly, whether by negotiation or other means, in the best interests of both parties. | indigenous affairs | This text is about indigenous affairs. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
We believe, moreover, that except in periods of recession or national emergency, these needs can be met with a balanced budget, with no increase in present tax rates, and with some surplus for the gradual reduction of our national debt. To assure such a balance we shall pursue a four-point program of fiscal responsibility. | the national budget | This text is about the national budget. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
The most conspicuous unnecessary item is, of course, the excessive cost of interest on the national debt. Courageous action to end duplication and competition among the armed services will achieve large savings. The cost of the agricultural program can be reduced while at the same time prosperity is being restored to the nation's farmers. | the national budget | This text is about the national budget. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
Second, we shall collect the billions in taxes which are owed to the Federal Government but not now collected. The Internal Revenue Service is still suffering from the cuts inflicted upon its enforcement staff by the Republican Administration and the Republican Congress in 1953. The Administration's own Commissioner of Internal Revenue has testified that billions of dollars in revenue are lost each year because the Service does not have sufficient agents to follow up on tax evasion. We will add enforcement personnel, and develop new techniques of enforcement, to collect tax revenue which is now being lost through evasion. Third, we shall close the loopholes in the tax laws by which certain privileged groups legally escape their fair share of taxation. Among the more conspicuous loopholes are depletion allowances which are inequitable, special consideration for recipients of dividend income, and deductions for extravagant "business expenses" which have reached scandalous proportions. Tax reform can raise additional revenue and at the same time increase legitimate incentives for growth, and make it possible to ease the burden on the general taxpayer who now pays an unfair share of taxes because of special favors to the few. Fourth, we shall bring in added Federal tax revenues by expanding the economy itself. Each dollar of additional production puts an additional 18 cents in tax revenue in the national treasury. A 5% growth rate, therefore, will mean that at the end of four years the Federal Government will have had a total of nearly $50 billion in additional tax revenues above those presently received. By these four methods we can sharply increase the Government funds available for needed services, for correction of tax inequities, and for debt or tax reduction. Much of the challenge of the 1960s, however, remains unforeseen and unforeseeable. If, therefore, the unfolding demands of the new decade at home or abroad should impose clear national responsibilities that cannot be fulfilled without higher taxes, we will not allow political disadvantage to deter us from doing what is required. | the tax code | This text is about the tax code. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
We have drifted into a national mood that accepts payola and quiz scandals, tax evasion and false expense accounts, soaring crime rates, influence peddling in high Government circles, and the exploitation of sadistic violence as popular entertainment. For eight long critical years our present national leadership has made no effective effort to reverse this mood. The new Democratic Administration will help create a sense of national purpose and higher standards of public behavior. | law and crime | This text is about law and crime. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
We shall also seek to create an affirmative new atmosphere in which to deal with racial divisions and inequalities which threaten both the integrity of our democratic faith and the proposition on which our nation was foundedíïthat all men are created equal. | minority discrimination | This text is about minority discrimination. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
If discrimination in voting, education, the administration of justice or segregated lunch counters are the issues in one area, discrimination in housing and employment may be pressing questions elsewhere. The peaceful demonstrations for first-class citizenship which have recently taken place in many parts of this country are a signal to all of us to make good at long last the guarantees of our Constitution. The time has come to assure equal access for all Americans to all areas of community life, including voting booths, schoolrooms, jobs, housing, and public facilities. | minority discrimination | This text is about minority discrimination. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
A new Democratic Administration will also use its full powersíïlegal and moralíïto ensure the beginning of good-faith compliance with the Constitutional requirement that racial discrimination be ended in public education. We believe that every school district affected by the Supreme Court's school desegregation decision should submit a plan providing for at least first-step compliance by 1963, the 100th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. To facilitate compliance, technical and financial assistance should be given to school districts facing special problems of transition. For this and for the protection of all other Constitutional rights of Americans, the Attorney General should be empowered and directed to file civil injunction suits in Federal courts to prevent the denial of any civil right on grounds of race, creed, or color. The new Democratic Administration will support Federal legislation establishing a Fair Employment Practices Commission to secure effectively for everyone the right to equal opportunity for employment. In 1949 the President's Committee on Civil Rights recommended a permanent Commission on Civil Rights. The new Democratic Administration will broaden the scope and strengthen the powers of the present commission and make it permanent. Its functions will be to provide, assistance to communities, industries, or individuals in the implementation of Constitutional rights in education, housing, employment, transportation, and the administration of justice. In addition, the Democratic Administration will use its full executive powers to assure equal employment opportunities and to terminate racial segregation throughout Federal services and institutions, and on all Government contracts, The successful desegregation of the armed services took place through such decisive executive action under President Truman. Similarly the new Democratic Administration will take action to end discrimination in Federal housing programs, including Federally assisted housing. To accomplish these goals will require executive orders, legal actions brought by the Attorney General, legislation, and improved Congressional procedures to safeguard majority rule. Above all, it will require the strong, active, persuasive, and inventive leadership of the President of the United States. | minority discrimination | This text is about minority discrimination. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
As citizens of the world, we insist that this power be exercised with the utmost responsibility. | international affairs | This text is about international affairs. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
Control of the use of nuclear weapons must remain solely with the highest elected official in the countryíïthe President of the United States. Through our policy of never negotiating from fear but never fearing to negotiate, we are slowly but surely approaching the point where effective international agreements providing for inspection and control can begin to lift the crushing burden of armaments off the backs of the people of the world. In the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, signed now by over 100 nations, we have written our commitment to limitations on the arms race, consistent with our security. Reduced production of nuclear materials for weapons purposes has been announced and nuclear weapons have been barred from outer space. | nuclear arms | This text is about nuclear arms. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
We are determined to continue all-out efforts through fully-enforceable measures to halt and reverse the arms race and bring to an end the era of nuclear terror. | nuclear arms | This text is about nuclear arms. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
We believe in increased partnership with our friends and associates in the community which spans the North Atlantic. In every possible way we will work to strengthen our ties and increase our cooperation, building always more firmly on the sure foundation of the NATO treaty. | defense alliances | This text is about defense alliances. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
We pledge unflagging devotion to our commitments to freedom from Berlin to South Vietnam. We will:Help the people of developing nations in Asia, Africa and Latin America raise their standards of living and create conditions in which freedom and independence can flourish. | international affairs | This text is about international affairs. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |
Oppose aggression and the use of force or the threat of force against any nation. Encourage by all peaceful means the growing independence of the captive peoples living under Communism and hasten the day that Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Estonia, Hungary, Latavia, Lithuania, Poland, Rumania and the other captive nations will achieve full freedom and self-determination. | international affairs | This text is about international affairs. | 0 | 0 | Dem. Party Platforms | GPT-4-1106-preview |