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What We  

Achieved Together!

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What Minnesotans fought for and won during the 2023 legislative session through organizing & people power.

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100%

Clean Energy

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Moves Minnesota utilities companies to transition to 100% Clean Energy by 2040 and 80% by 2030

Paid Family

& Medical Leave

Statewide comprehensive publicly-administered social insurance program to provide 12 weeks of family and 12 weeks of medical leave, up to 20 weeks combined

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Democracy

for the People

We passed the Democracy for the People act, restoring the right vote for over 55K Minnesotans, and protected (and expanded!) the ways we get to shape our communities and our futures together.

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    • Restored voting rights to over 55,000 Minnesotans on probation, parole and supervisory release

    • Automatic voter registration

    • Voter pre-registration for 16 and 17 year olds

    • Keeping internationally influenced corporations big $$$ out of MN elections

    • Language translations of election materials

    • Funding to get voting education and materials to under-served and under represented communities

    • Permanent Absentee (Mail-in-Ballot) Voting List

    • Voting facilitation for residents at assisted living facilities

    • Guaranteed time off from work to vote

    • Penalties for knowingly spreading false information about voting for the purpose of suppressing votes

    • Protection from voter intimidation and harassment

Early Childhood

Care & Education

We've put more funding and support into our childcare system so more families have access to affordable care and educators are better paid for their skills and labor.

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    • Created a New Department for Children, Youth and Families that will center programs at the state level so they get the attention they deserve

    • Raised Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP) reimbursement rates to the 75th percentile (up from the 25th percentile)

    • Transformed COVID childcare stabilization grants to support the workforce into permanent Great Start Workforce Compensation Supports

Driver’s Licenses

For All

Restoring access to driver’s licenses regardless of immigration status

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Housing

We all deserve a home no matter the color of our skin, the size of our family or how much money we've got in our pockets. And new funding passed this session will make and keep more Minnesotans housed and safe.

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    • $1 Billion investment in affordable housing

    • ¼ cent sales tax for ongoing housing funding

    • Creation of new Rental Assistance program to help 5,000 people

    • First time homebuyer assistance for an additional 5,000 people

Healthcare Access

& Affordability

Establishing a Prescription Drug Affordability Board and a pathway for MinnesotaCare as a Public Option, including undocumented children and adults!

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Public Safety

We've made our state and communities safer AND honored people's dignity by banning private prisons, passing gun safety laws, and built stronger oversight of police accountability and practices.

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    • Gun Safety: Red flag law and expanding background checks

    • Rehabilitation & Reinvestment Act - creating incentives for early release and reducing recidivism

    • Expanding civilian oversight of police

    • Connecting families - making phone calls free for incarcerated persons

    • Ban on private prisons

    • Clean Slate Act - automatic expungement

    • Clemency reform

    • $70 million in one-time funds spread over five years for community crime and violence prevention grants for things like victim services, prison re-entry, homelessness assistance, restorative justice, violence interruption and juvenile diversion.

    • $10 million to improve the training and availability of non-police crisis response teams.

    • Cap probation at 5 years, retroactive

    • Expanding MN Sentencing Guidelines Commission to better reflect community and best practices

    • Gross misdemeanor maximum sentence 364 days (instead of 365 which became an impediment for some immigrants seeking naturalization because of federal law)

Worker

Protections

Statewide Earned Sick & Safe Time, where employers must offer 6 days of paid sick leave per year. Minnesotans also won warehouse worker safety, meatpacker worker safety, and a Nursing Home Workplace Standards Board.

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Tax

Fairness

We blocked a full tax cut for the wealthiest retirees and passed the best Child Tax Credit in the Country, which will cut childhood poverty by 1/3.

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    • More progressive and fair tax structure where the wealthier pay more of what they owe and those with lower income get more of what they deserve

    • Best Child Tax Credit in the country, cutting childhood poverty by 1/3

    • Blocked a full tax cut for the wealthiest retirees which would have put a $1.2 billion hole in our budget

Transportation

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We've putting big funding into transportation across the state to better connect us to the people we love and places we work and play.

    • Long term, dedicated transit funding to create fast & frequent metro service, electric buses, etc.

    • Greater MN transit investments

    • Cutting edge policies to curb climate pollution

    • Transit ambassadors for a safe, welcoming system

    • Decriminalized fare enforcement

    • Fare-free pilot on two Metro Transit lines

    • Northern Lights Express (Twin Cities to Duluth) passenger rail funding