Book Presentation

The Plan suggests a way for Republicans and Democrats to move beyond partisan politics and make progress for America. Emanuel and Reed propose a set of reforms that ask Americans to participate in their future while promising them increased opportunity in return. Their proposals include a new social contract (universal citizen service, universal college access, universal retirement savings, and universal children’s health care) that makes clear what you can do for your country and what your country can do for you, a return to fiscal responsibility and an end to corporate welfare as we know it, tax reform to help those who aren’t wealthy build wealth, a new strategy to use America’s strengths to win the war on terror, and a Hybrid Economy that cuts America’s gas consumption in half over the next decade.

Rahm Emanuel is a member of the United States House of Representatives from the 5^th District of Illinois and the Chairman of the Democratic National Campaign Committee. Bruce Reed is the editor-in-chief of Blueprint, a magazine of new Democratic ideas, and writes a daily political column for Slate.

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