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FEATURING NATALIA RENTA - The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 offers a clear vision for what a future conservative presidential administration is likely to do in office.

On the economy in particular, Project 2025 promotes gig work over secure union jobs that pay a living wage. It considers federal employee unions to be “incompatible with democracy” and even targets child labor laws, encouraging minors’ access to hazardous jobs in order to mitigate “worker shortages.” The authors want “lower taxes and deregulation,” and cuts to food stamps and family assistance “while maintaining a strong national defense and not raising taxes.”

As part of YES! Magazine's new Progress 2025 initiative, we explore what a progressive vision of labor and capital would look like.

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