Martin O'Malley

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22. O'Malley's 15 Goals to Rebuild the America Dream (Part 2)

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Fri Oct 23, 2015, 10:40 AM

Oct 2015

Here are goals 8-15

Goal 8: End childhood hunger in America by 2020.

Goal 9: Reform our criminal justice system to save and redeem lives.

Link to the full criminal justice reform plan: https://martinomalley.com/policy/criminal-justice/

Today in America, our justice system has reinforced our country’s cruel history of racism and economic inequality. Governor O’Malley has outlined a comprehensive criminal justice reform plan, including measures to build trust between law enforcement and the communities they serve, ensure fairness in sentencing, reduce recidivism through reentry, and address the discriminatory and punitive application of student discipline.

Reduce recidivism by 20 percentage points within 10 years. Today in America, the incarceration rate is triple what it was in 1980 and is six times the rate of that of most developed countries. According to the most recent data, three out of four incarcerated individuals are re-arrested within five years of leaving jail or prison—more than half of whom are re-arrested within a year.

Goal 10: Cut deaths from gun violence—homicides, suicides, and accidents—in half by 2025.

Link to the full plan: https://martinomalley.com/the-latest/preventing-and-reducing-gun-violence/

Goal 11: Reduce deaths from drug overdoses by 25 percent by 2020.

Goal 12: Reduce infant mortality by 10 percent by 2020.

Goal 13: Require banks to separate commercial and speculative banking within 5 years.

Read Governor O’Malley’s letter to Wall Street, and his plan for protecting the American Dream from another Wall Street crash:

https://14d2r744okfe40r1ug1oqm6y-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/OMalley-Wall-Street-Reform.pdf

Today in America, megabanks with more than $100 billion in assets comprise almost 60 percent of the financial services market, compared to just 17 percent in 1995, before the repeal of Glass-Steagall. Over that same period, the market share of smaller community banks, which are critical for small businesses and local investment, has fallen from nearly half to only a quarter.

Goal 14: Restore America’s competition and antitrust laws, taking action within one year in office

Our nation’s antitrust laws were built to protect fair and competitive markets where small businesses, small farmers, and innovation could thrive. But the Reagan Administration reinterpreted those laws to protect “efficiency” instead, allowing bigger and bigger corporations to shut out competition in many once-vibrant areas of our economy.

Today in America, a handful of companies now control the vast majority of the market in industries ranging from beef, seeds, and milk; to airlines, semiconductors, and defense contracting and procurement—depressing wages and employment and dampening innovation. A first step to reversing this consolidation is to direct the U.S. Department of Justice to issue new policies to aggressively enforce our antimonopoly laws.

Goal 15: Implement public financing of congressional campaigns within 5 years

Read the campaign finance policy paper here: https://martinomalley.com/policy/campaign-finance-reform/

In the five years since Citizens United, super PACs, corporations, and other outside groups have spent almost $2 billion targeting federal elections—about two-and-a-half times what they spent, in total, between 1990 and 2008.

At the same time, for the first time in decades, the total number of small donors has begun to fall. In 2014, the top 100 donors to super PACs spent almost as much money as every single small-dollar donor combined. Our broken campaign finance system allows special interests to drown out the voices of everyday Americans and stymies policies that would benefit the middle class.