- Increase the number of U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Field Offices, so more residents can immediately access resources and programs with walk-in service.
- Get foreign, multi-national corporate investors and private equity firms out of single-family residential home real estate investments.
- Reinstate the Glass-Steagall Legislation of the Banking Act of 1933, separating investment and commercial banks.
- Expand funding opportunities for critical home repair programs
- Repeal the 1998 Faircloth Amendment which limited the construction of new public housing projects.
- Expand weather-proofing and energy efficiency incentives and resources to help families save on monthly utility bills.
- Expand Federal funding opportunities for neighborhood organizations to tackle the important issues on their block like blight or lack of amenities.
- Build upon past successes and expand opportunities for municipalities to address critical infrastructure repairs such as streets, parks, sidewalks, and more.
- Get resources to communities to demolish blighted abandoned properties.
- Incentivize grocery stores and small businesses to operate in less affluent communities to increase access to healthy, nutritious food.
- Streamline Federal conservation programming, so farmers and landowners can access incentive programs easier without as much paperwork.
- Reframe how we approach conservation by rewarding farmers and landowners for outcomes instead of implementation of practices. In other words, reward them after verifying the amount of carbon they are sequestering on their land, instead of just paying them for adopting a conservation practice.
- Create crop insurance discounts for cover cropping and other practices that sequester carbon in the soil.
- Replant riparian forested buffer strips between fields like we did following the Dust Bowl.
- Get more resources to local Soil and Water Conservation Districts who are on the front lines of the climate crisis. (Sign my petition urging the Michigan Legislature to adequately fund CDs!)
- Expand incentives for landowners to plant trees on their land.
- Offer incentives to companies who convert unused land to native prairies or forests.
- Mobilize the next generation of conservation professionals by creating student loan forgiveness programs for any students pursuing degrees relevant to natural resources management.
- Expand the AmeriCorps – Climate Corps program by increasing the cost of living stipends for participants, so they don’t have to live on poverty wages while serving their communities.
- Expand Federal funding opportunities for child care, making it more affordable for all Michiganders.
- Advocate for raising the Federal Minimum Wage.
- Protect workers’ right to organize and determine the terms and conditions of their employment.
- Establish sectoral bargaining, so unions have greater capacity to collectively bargain among colleagues.
- Establish a Single-Payer insurance system where everyone is covered with a robust public option, and if desired private supplemental plans could be purchased.
- Ease access to mental health services by establishing student loan forgiveness programs for students seeking careers in behavioral health.
- Explore providing federal incentives and student loan forgiveness for physicians specializing in primary care.
- Explore legislation to incentivize primary care providers in rural communities.
- Introduce legislation to mandate minimum supply in pharmacies to prevent future prescription drug shortages.
- Get money out of politics through comprehensive campaign finance reform.
- Codify Roe v. Wade into law, protecting bodily autonomy for all.
- Create a public funding stream for local newspapers, so that all communities can stay better connected to critical events and the activities of municipalities.
- Make Election Day in November a Federal Holiday.
- Dan supports secure, efficient processes that promote ease of access to voting by all citizens, including mail-in ballots, ballot drop boxes, early voting, convenient access to polling places, and same day registration.
- Michigan consistently ranks as one of the most diverse producers of crops in the country with over 300 commodities grown here.
- Break up the agriculture monopolies so family farmers can compete on a state, national, and global scale.
- Regionalize processing facilities, as they once were, so in the event food can’t move due to energy disruptions or other crises, our systems won’t collapse.
- Eliminate the 3 year farming requirement to apply for Farm Services Agency loans, so beginning farmers can access financing to buy farm land and equipment.
- Expand technical assistance support and conservation cost-share programs to help improve farmer bottom lines.
- Incentivize farmers for outcomes vs paying them for practice adoption, by tying crop insurance premium discounts to conservation practice implementation.
- Standardize non-regulatory verification systems to determine carbon sequestration quantities, reward farmers for higher carbon sequestration.
- Reform H-2A visa process, to make it easier for foreign seasonal workers to connect with farmers, increasing labor supply to meet current demands.
- Pass a national Right to Repair bill. Farmers are resourceful, skilled, and frugal people who are more than capable of repairing their own equipment. They shouldn’t be forced to be price-gouged by exclusive monopolistic equipment dealers. When a piece of farm equipment breaks down, farmers can lose thousands of dollars and can’t afford to wait on the dealers to service the equipment.
- Incentivize grocery stores to offset lower profits in rural communities, so rural communities have access to fresh, nutritious food.