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CENTER FOR COLLABORATIVE DEMOCRACY

Grand
Bargain Project

Reuniting A Divided America around A Roadmap For The Future

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Six Key Issues

The Grand Bargain Project is designed to unite Americans around a practical plan to advance six objectives that 90+ percent of citizens see as critical to their future.

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Boost economic mobility and growth

Reform education so students reach their potential

Make healthcare more effective and less costly

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Curb the national debt 

Promote more efficient, cleaner and reliable energy

Make the tax code fairer and simpler

EXPLORE

Why We Need to Tackle These Six Issues Together

Ninety-six (96) percent of Americans hunger for major progress in one or more of these areas.

Yet neither political party has in recent decades made enough progress for most Americans to notice.


Both parties are at fault — because they enact each law to satisfy some voters, some interest groups and some politicians, at one point in time. 


Current policies thereby contradict one another, allowing our chronic problems to grow worse, while wasting trillions of dollars.

This chronic failure has angered voters enough to tear our society apart.

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Systemic Remedy

To reunite the American people around a shared vision of our future – before it’s too late -- we are proposing common-sense reforms in the above six areas that, when combined, would vastly improve life for all.

We distilled ideas — from major stakeholders, think tank leaders, former policymakers, political activists and citizen groups — into 40 reforms, each one sentence long, that — when combined — would yield historic progress in all six areas, and at lower cost than current policies. 

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GRAND BARGAIN

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GRAND BARGAIN

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GRAND BARGAIN

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Proof of Concept

Diverse audiences are consistently preferring the combined reforms over the country’s current direction, including:

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97% of attendees at our Braver Angels workshop in June

93% of major stakeholder organizations interviewed to date

92% of attendees at Young Presidents Organization meeting in August

85% deficit hawks, climate activists, liberals and libertarians interviewed

A growing list of organizations are thereby seeing the 40-reform Grand Bargain as a roadmap for the future that will unite far more Americans than anything else can.

Building an Exponentially Growing Movement

Bridge Alliance, various Rotary Clubs, and other civic groups are working with us to incorporate the Grand Bargain into their community-building programs.

Braver Angels and others will host workshops in which participants deliberate over the evolving plan.

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To foster nationwide dialogue, we will hold at least three workshops in each of the 435 congressional districts. Citizens will deliberate over the combined reforms — in community meeting and online. We will, in turn, distill the results into a form that we will deliver to political leaders as representing the will of the America people.


To mobilize the 100+ million “exhausted majority” who hunger for a better future — but lack the tools to affect change — we will air digital-social media messages such as: If we unite into a movement supporting the Grand Bargain, we could at last exert influence proportional to our numbers.


To members of the new congressional majority most alarmed about our democracy, our disunity, the national debt or economic discontent, we will make a case that, In a Senate and House with slim majorities of three or less, if a handful of you unite into a Grand Bargain Working  Group, you could become the gatekeepers — steering the agenda in a far more constructive direction than now.

Expected Outcomes

A critical mass of Americans, influencers and stakeholders will increasingly unite around the grand bargain, creating an exponentially growing movement to  demand replacing divisiveness and dysfunction with constructive action in all six areas.

Pro-Grand Bargain lawmakers will then be empowered to tell their colleagues:

 

To show voters we’re on their side, and keep our jobs, we need to strongly support this widely popular agreement as the starting point for our deliberations. 

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‍An ambitious plan. But no one has shown us any other credible way to reunite America. Nor do we see any other way to induce policymakers to agree on how to boost economic mobility, curb the debt, minimize destructive weather, or attain the other key objectives. 

Our country thereby needs the grand bargain if the American people and our democracy are to thrive.

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Join us in reuniting our country.

The Grand Bargain Project has gathered concrete evidence that common-sense reforms in all six of the above areas, if combined, would yield vast benefits to society — enough so that nearly every American would strongly prefer the total package over the country’s current direction.

Join us on forging a path to nationwide prosperity.

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The Center for Collaborative Democracy is a 501(c)3 Nonprofit and the sponsor of the Grand Bargain Project. We strive to help every American reach their potential by working with business leaders, consumer advocates, labor unions, environmentalists, civil rights groups and other major stakeholders to develop innovative solutions for our nation’s most critical problems. We see that process as necessary to reduce the hyper-polarization that threatens our democracy.

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