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Six Key Issues
The Grand Bargain Project is mobilizing Americans around a practical plan to advance six aspirations that 96% of us see as critical to our own lives.
Greater Economic Opportunity & Growth
Schools That Enable Our Kids to Reach Their Potential
More Effective & Affordable Healthcare
More Efficient Spending To Curb The National Debt
More Reliable, Cleaner & Affordable Energy
Fairer Simpler Tax Code
How Our Political System Thwarts These Aspirations
Whichever party is in power enacts each law to satisfy its supports on a few causes, while letting our overall problems grow worse.
Most voters have understandably been growing increasingly angry at government and one another
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Nationwide Change At Unprecendented Scale
To meet Americans’ aspirations in all six areas, we distilled ideas — from major stakeholders, think tank leaders, former policymakers, political activists and citizen groups — into 35 reforms that will:
Accelerate progress in each area
Boost efficiency and lower costs
Work well together
Raise Americans’ confidence in their future
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Proof of Concept
73% of citizens in a recent YouGov survey preferred the 35 Grand Bargain reforms over America’s current direction -- more than Donald Trump’s and the Democratic Party’s approval ratings combined.
That support extends to 45 states. In this map, green = >50% support; yellow = 50%; red = <50. One caveat: In states with the fewest residents, the sample size is too small to rely on. Future polls will focus on these states to get more precise data.
To capitalize on the public’s receptivity, the Grand Bargain Project is launching four initiatives:
Building an Exponentially Growing Movement
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 roadmap for the future that we will deliver to political leaders as representing the will of the America people.
Braver Angels and others will also host workshops in which participants deliberate over the evolving plan.
Various Rotary Clubs, and other civic groups are working with us to incorporate the Grand Bargain into their community-building programs.
To mobilize the 100+ million “exhausted majority” who hunger for a better future — but lack the tools to affect change — we will soon distribute the Grand Bargain App that enables any citizen to give us feedback about the evolving roadmap.
We thereby intend to energize a Movement for Positive Change.
To members of the congressional majority alarmed about the national debt, tariffs, economic discontent or growing divisiveness, we will make the following case:
Given your party’s slim majority in both chambers, 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 seats, 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 over 70% of Americans would prefer the total package over the country’s current direction.