How We're Going To Do It

Everyone will be needed to build the America we want. We’ll need:

• government to provide vision and leadership, pass laws, provide funding and coordinate large-scale projects;

• businesses to take on contracts, innovate solutions and make good profits by doing good for the nation;

• tech innovators and researchers to develop new cost-effective and sustainable methods to get things done;

• workers of all kinds to build new infrastructure and repair existing facilities;

• senior citizens to volunteer or take on paid work, leveraging their tremendous knowledge and experience; and

• young adults to do national service, working as teammates with their fellow Americans from different walks of life.

A live national scorecard

We’ll create an online national scorecard to track our accomplishments. If we pledge to repair 5,000 public schools, you’ll see how many are done and which ones. If we commit to building 1,000 self-sustaining food pantries, you can check progress and find out how to help. Filling a million potholes? Installing solar panels on 25,000 rooftops? Log in and see the updates. If we’re falling behind and need more hands, you’ll know where to pitch in.

We’ll work together in ways that help us get to know one another better as Americans

Just as one example:

An invitation to picture your part in this vision

Imagine the roles you could play in bringing this vision to life. What skills would you offer as a volunteer? What jobs fit your skills, or what would you train to do? If you’re a senior, how could you apply your experience? If you’re younger, what could you contribute during two years of national service? Where would you hope to serve? Who will you meet? What work would you do?

Picture how it will feel to help fix schools, mentor youth, repair bridges, build light rail, or start community gardens. Imagine ten years from now—the anxieties about food, rent, or medical care are gone. If you never had to worry, then imagine how it will feel to know you helped others who are now less worried about survival and more free to focus on family, work, and dreams.

Imagine a country that truly works for all of us, providing a secure, decent life for those working, raising kids, or doing their part in other ways. Picture cleaner air, renewable energy, and more affordable training programs leading to good jobs. Envision new bus, subway, and rail lines everywhere. And imagine a nation where trust and shared accomplishment bind us more than our differences.

Imagine what we can do together as Americans, and how good it will feel to succeed.