An increase in the minimum wage, an expansion of health care coverage, and an infrastructure build-a-thon are obvious candidates.
Finally, constituencies within the health care system participate in enhanced advocacy efforts to raise awareness of poverty as a distinct threat to child health and to press for public policy responses such as minimum wage increases, expansion of tax credits, paid family leave, universal preschool education, and other priorities focused on child poverty.
With major real increases in the minimum wage, an expansion of the bolsa familia programme for the poor and a mortgage credit for home buyers of modest means, it won't be that easy to campaign against Dilma and the Workers' party on economic issues.
Most of these new Democrats said they were also committed to changes in the new Medicare prescription drug program; in fact, giving the government the power to negotiate prices with drug companies is one of the first items of business in the Democrats' "Six for '06 Agenda". The agenda also includes an increase in the minimum wage and expansion of embryonic stem cell research.
Making the cut were several of Sanders' proposals, including a $15 minimum wage, the expansion of Social Security and stricter sanctions for Wall Street fraud, according to The Associated Press. .
In other words, California's experience over the next few years may not be a good predictor of what would happen if the government ordered the sort of dramatic increase in the minimum wage and expansion of health benefits that the authors of the study appear to be advocating.
During the current American expansion wage pressures only started to build once unemployment dropped below 5.5%.
The commission called for a rise in the minimum wage and an expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit program, which provides cash subsidies to low-wage workers.
The virtuous economic cycle (solid expansion, wage growth and continued low inflation) may be good news for Trump, but it's also good news for everyone else.
