Employment assistance (workforce training/increased licensures and certifications from military experience/employer tax credits for hiring/employment protections for returning guard members)

Creation of veteran job corps

Educational assistance (tuition assistance/GI Bill)

Healthcare (head trauma/PTSD/benefits expansion/telemedicine for rural vets/veteran suicide prevention/access to mental health care/counseling on deployment and return)

Assistance for disabled vets (housing/benefits/employment)

Housing benefits (homelessness prevention/special assistant at HUD)

VA improvements (fixing backlog/higher reimbursements for longer travels/automatic enrollment and training in using the system)

Resources for survivors of military sexual assault

Improvement of reintegration programs (counseling/financial planning)

Veterans History Project

Protecting against financial scams

Medicare protection/expansion

Social Security protection/expansion (COLA increases/eliminating income cap)

Opposition to voter registration/ID laws (because of effects on elderly)

Expanding prescription drug coverage for seniors

Senior nutrition and other services

Older Americans Act

Expanding access to hospice and long-term care

Repeal DADT

Repeal DOMA

Legalizing same-sex marriage

Employment protections

Government employee benefits for same-sex partners

Anti-bullying and nondiscrimination policies

Domestic violence/sexual assault protections (VAWA)

HIV/AIDS

Confinement/racial profiling/marijuana and other drug offenses/former inmate reintegration/police brutality

Reparations (slavery/Japanese internment)

Treatment HIV/AIDS (including in prison)

Voting rights (opposition to attempts to end early voting and require additional voter registration or ID/simplify voter registration of Voting Rights Act)

Civil Rights Act

Housing assistance

Employment (increase federal grants and contracts to minority-owned business/assistance to Black farmers)

African American History Museum

MLK birthday as federal holiday

Education (minorities in STEM, government and private partnerships with minority colleges/funding)

Immigration reform (path to citizenship/legal status/worker status/asylum seekers)

Shorten citizenship waiting period (members of military/family reunification)

DREAM act

Domestic violence protections (VAWA)

Citizenship education programs (English language assistance/naturalization workshops)

Legal status for military/college

Elimination of country caps

Reproductive rights (abortion coverage/contraception coverage and availability)

Employment (equal pay/pregnancy discrimination/breast pump space)

Healthcare (mammograms/breast cancer/nopays for preventative care)

Sexual assault and domestic violence (VAWA/military programs/expansion of definition of rape/homelessness prevention for domestic violence victims)

Military (expansion of roles for women/equipment like body armor to fit women)

Employment assistance (worker training/new WPA or other job corps/tax credits for employers hiring someone unemployed or on public assistance/create “empowerment zones” providing tax credits for companies going into impoverished areas)

Unemployment benefits

Housing assistance (renters/homelessness/heating assistance/Home Energy Assistance Program/Affordable Housing Trust Fund/foreclosure assistance/tax credit for the creation of low-income housing

Nutrition (expansion of SNAP benefits/SNAP at farmer’s markets/free and reduced lunch benefits)

Education (Head Start/access to art, economics, civics, and foreign language classes/TRIO programs and outreach to disadvantaged students)

Healthcare (Children’s Health Insurance Program/Medicaid expansion/dental coverage/support for community health centers/continuous open enrollment for Medicaid and CHIP)

Expanded access to child care

Broadband access for low-income communities

Minimum wage increase

Free tax prep for low-income individuals and families and financial literacy programs

TANF benefit extensions