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Friends,

America is changing. For decades, we’ve enacted policies that helped Silicon Valley boom while rural America struggled.

That’s why I’m proud to share my vision for a Heartland Fair Deal: A comprehensive roadmap of policy solutions to revive rural America.

The Heartland Fair Deal focuses on four areas:

  1. Economic Growth
  2. Infrastructure
  3. Rural Health
  4. Agriculture

These policies will allow people to move back to rural America, start new businesses in small towns, give farmers new markets, boost rural health, and get more government contracts into rural America.

Help me spread the word about my Heartland Fair Deal. Please consider joining this campaign with a donation of any amount today »

When you talk to people in small towns you hear the same thing: families can’t stay together, young people can’t stay in the places where they grew up.

We have to put policies in place so our kids don’t have to move to a big city in order to have a chance for a good job.

That’s why my Heartland Fair Deal focuses on the following areas:

Economic Growth

Over the last few decades, American investment has been concentrated in a small number of cities.

And as a result, rural America has been left behind. We can reverse this trend, but it will require a serious investment. Here’s how I propose to do it:

  1. Forgive student loans for people that live and work in these communities for 10 years.
  2. Prioritize government contracting to companies with a majority of employees in rural counties.
  3. Fix opportunity zone legislation to focus more on operating businesses, rather than investing in real estate.
  4. Double the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) to relieve the financial strain on American families.
  5. Incentivize companies to build negative emission technology in rural America and coal country.
  6. Create new SBIC and SBA Loan programs to encourage entrepreneurship and focus venture capital investment in rural America, particularly agricultural and climate disruptive technologies.
  7. Support entrepreneurship in rural communities and mid-sized cities adjacent to rural America.

Infrastructure

Rural infrastructure should be world-class. Rural America deserves clean water, high-speed broadband, and safe bridges and roads.

Here are the ways I intend to provide that:

  1. Create an Infrastructure Bank and increase funding to the Highway Trust Fund so we can improve our nation’s roads.
  2. Focus on climate resiliency and flooding.

Rural Health

There shouldn’t be health disparities and doctor shortages in rural America. Here’s how we should address this:

  1. Immediately pass universal health care coverage to guarantee every single American has access to quality, affordable health care.
  2. Create incentives for doctors and other health care professionals to move to and serve rural communities.
  3. Expand the scope of practice up to the level of training for health care professionals.
  4. Better integrate physical and mental health care and guarantee parity for mental health care.
  5. Expand and invest in tele-health, including investments in broadband.
  6. Invest in Community Health Centers.
  7. Ensure rural communities have access to high quality, affordable substance use disorder treatments.
  8. Strengthen access to pre-natal and maternity care in rural communities.
  9. Improve access to health care for our veterans living in rural communities.

Support Agriculture

U.S. agriculture feeds our country -- and much of the world. We have to end Trump’s destructive trade wars and expand markets for U.S. agriculture. Under my administration, I will:

  1. Reenter the TPP so we can expand markets in Asia and counter China’s dominance in those markets.
  2. Invest in research to help agriculture deal with climate change through better technology and soil management.
  3. Expand access and funding for conservation programs.
  4. Invest in research to expand bio-based manufacturing opportunities.
  5. Redesign anti-trust regulations to address concentration of power in the agriculture economy.

Look, I’ve spent months traveling around the heartland and talking to folks who’ve seen their towns become smaller and smaller as young people move to the city to pursue careers.

And as a result, we’re leaving so many people behind. These people are frustrated by President Trump’s broken promises, and urgently need leadership that will address their concerns.

I intend to be that leader. If you’re with me, please consider making a donation to my campaign and help me spread the word about my Heartland Fair Deal:

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Thank you for reading this. And thank you so much for your support,
John

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