Jill Stein in Survey of 2016 Presidential campaign websites

On Civil Rights: Protect LGBTQIA+ people from discrimination

• Protect LGBTQIA+ people from discrimination.
• Defend indigenous rights, lands and treaties.

On Drugs: Replace drug prohibition with harm reduction

• End the failed war on drugs. Replace drug prohibition with harm reduction. Legalize marijuana/hemp. Treat substance abuse as a health problem, not a criminal offense.
• Release nonviolent drug offenders from prison, removing such offenses from their records, and provide them with both pre- and post-release support.

On Education: Treat education as a right

• Protect our public school systems from privatization.
• Evaluate teacher performance through assessment by fellow professionals. Do not rely on high stakes tests that reflect economic status of the community, and punish teachers working in low income communities of color.
• Replace Common Core with curriculum developed by educators, not corporations, with input from parents and communities.
• Stop denying students diplomas based on high stakes tests.
• Stop using merit pay to punish teachers who work with the most challenging student populations.
• Increase federal funding of public schools to equalize public school funding.

On Energy & Oil: Green New Deal to turn the tide on climate change

• Enact an emergency Green New Deal to turn the tide on climate change, revive the economy and make wars for oil obsolete.
• Initiate a WWII-scale national mobilization to halt climate change, the greatest threat to humanity in our history.
• Support a strong enforceable global climate treaty that limits global warming to no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius and provides just financial compensation to developing countries.
• End destructive energy extraction and associated infrastructure: fracking, tar sands, offshore drilling, oil trains, mountaintop removal, natural gas pipelines, and uranium mines. Halt any investment in fossil fuel infrastructure, including natural gas, and phase out all fossil fuel power plants. Phase out nuclear power and end nuclear subsidies. End all subsidies for fossil fuels and impose a greenhouse gas fee / tax to charge polluters for the damage they have created.

On Environment: Adopt the Precautionary Principle

• Protect our public lands, water supplies, biological diversity, parks, and pollinators. Ban neonicotinoids and other pesticides that threaten the survival of bees, butterflies, and other pollinators.
• Label GMOs, and put a moratorium on GMOs and pesticides until they are proven safe.
• Support organic and regenerative agriculture, permaculture, and sustainable forestry.
• Protect the rights of future generations. Adopt the Precautionary Principle. When an activity poses threats of harm to human health or the environment, in the absence of objective scientific consensus that it is safe, precautionary measures should be taken. The proponent of an activity, rather than the public, should bear the burden of proof.
• Invest in clean air, water, food and soil for everyone. Clean up America.

On Government Reform: Replace Electoral College with national popular vote

• Protect voters' rights by enforcing and expanding the constitutional right to vote (including a new amendment if necessary). Enact the full Voter's Bill of Rights guaranteeing each person's right to vote, the right to have our votes counted on hand-marked paper ballots, and the right to vote within systems that give each vote meaning.
• Make voter registration the responsibility of government, not a voluntary opt-in for citizens.
• Abolish the Electoral College and directly elect the President using a national popular vote with ranked-choice voting..
• Restore the right to run for office and eliminate unopposed races by removing ballot access barriers.
• Guarantee equal access to the debates to all ballot-qualified candidates.
• Reduce barriers to voting by making Election Day a national holiday.
• Enact simplified, safe same-day voter registration to the nation so that no qualified voter is barred from the polls.

On Health Care: Healthcare for all including contraception

• Establish an improved "Medicare for All" single-payer public health program to provide everyone with quality health care. No co-pays, premiums or deductibles. Access to all health care services, including mental health, dental, and vision. Include everyone, period.
• Allow full access to contraceptive and reproductive care.
• Expand women's access to "morning after" contraception by lifting the Obama Administration's ban.

On Homeland Security: Close the 700+ foreign military bases

• Cut military spending by at least 50% and close the 700+ foreign military bases. Ensure a just transition that replaces reductions in military jobs with jobs in renewable energy, transportation and green infrastructure development.
• Stop U.S. financial and military support to human rights abusers. Barring substantial changes in their policies, this would include Saudi Arabia, Israel and Egypt.
• End the US' role as the world's arm supplier.

On Social Security: Remove income cap on social security taxes

• Strengthen rather than cut Medicare and Social Security.
• Remove the cap on social security taxes above a certain level of income.

On Government Reform: Reject campaign donations from military-industrial complex

Stein called for all candidates to reject campaign contributions from military contractors. In 2014, military contractors gave $8.9 million to Democrats and $13.5 million to Republicans in Congress. Virtually all members of Congress focus on securing defense contracts for companies in their districts.

On Homeland Security: Slash dangerously bloated military budget by at least 50%

Stein added, "Instead of needless and destructive wars, that make us less safe not more safe, it's time to bring our tax dollars home to rebuild America." President Obama has requested roughly $600 billion for this year's Pentagon budget. "If we include spending on nuclear weapons, Veterans Administration costs, and the military's portion of the national debt, we are spending over $1 trillion on the military each year."

On Homeland Security: Cancel F-35 project; cancel the Littoral Combat Ship

Stein would also root out the massive corruption in military spending. A failed attempt to audit the Department of Defense during the Clinton administration found that $2.3 trillion of $7 trillion in transactions could not be justified. "War profiteering by military contractors--which has been rampant in Iraq and Afghanistan--should be eliminated and prosecuted. The revolving door between government and military contractors must be shut," said Stein. Stein would save up to a trillion dollars in coming years canceling obsolete or unnecessary projects like the F-35, the new strategic bomber, and the Littoral Combat Ship. She would save an additional trillion dollars over a decade by canceling the development of new nuclear weapons, which threatens to start a dangerous new nuclear arms race.

On Tax Reform: Lower taxes for majority by cutting $2.3T military spending

On War & Peace: We have killed millions of civilians in our war for oil

On Corporations: Break up "too-big-to-fail" banks

On Education: End high stakes testing

On Environment: Moratorium on GMOs until they are proven safe

On Government Reform: Establish a constitutional right to vote

On Health Care: Single-payer public health insurance program

Health Care as a Right: Establish an improved "Medicare For All" single-payer public health insurance program to provide everyone with quality health care, at huge savings.

On Homeland Security: 700+ foreign military bases are bankrupting us

On Homeland Security: End persecution of government and media whistleblowers

On Welfare & Poverty: Economic human rights: food, water, & housing

Jobs as a Right: Create living-wage jobs for every American who need

On Environment: Promote sustainable agriculture & freedom from toxic threats

Her "Healthy People, Healthy Planet" teaching program reveals the links between human health, climate security, and green economic revitalization. This body of work has been presented at government, public health and medical conferences, and has been used to improve public policy.

Jill began to advocate for the environment as a human health issue in 1998 when she realized that politicians were simply not acting to protect children from the toxic threats. She played a key role in the effort to get the Massachusetts fish advisories updated to better protect women & children from mercury contamination.

On Families & Children: Physician married to a physician; two sons and one dog

On Environment: Filthy Five: clean up coal plants in Massachusetts

Jill has testified before numerous legislative panels as well as local and state governmental bodies. She played a key role in the effort to get the Massachusetts fish advisories updated to better protect women and children from mercury contamination, which can contribute to learning disabilities and attention deficits in children. She also helped lead the successful campaign to clean up the "Filthy Five" coal plants in Massachusetts, an effort that resulted in getting coal plant regulations signed into law that were the most protective around at that time. Her testimony on the effects of mercury and dioxin contamination from the burning of waste helped preserve the Massachusetts moratorium on new trash incinerator construction in the state.

On Health Care: Healthy People, Healthy Planet: link environment & health

She is the co-author of two widely-praised reports, "In Harm's Way: Toxic Threats to Child Development," published in 2000, and "Environmental Threats to Healthy Aging," published in 2009. The first of these has been translated into four languages and is used worldwide. The reports promote green local economies, sustainable agriculture, clean power, and freedom from toxic threats.

Her "Healthy People, Healthy Planet" teaching program reveals the links between human health, climate security, and green economic revitalization. This body of work has been presented at government, public health and medical conferences, and has been used to improve public policy.

On Crime: Black Lives Matter: end racism & police militarization

The fight is building against predatory mass incarceration, that holds one in three African American men hostage to our vast prison state.

On Drugs: End the racist war on drugs and school-to-prison pipeline

• Health care as a human right, not a means tested entitlement like Medicare, not a subsidized profit center for predatory insurance like Obamacare, but a Medicare for All system to provide quality care for all while saving trillions by streamlining the massive health insurance bureaucracy;
• Quality free public education as a human right, and an end to runaway school privatizations and closings, to high stakes testing, and student loan debt.
• A welcoming path to citizenship for immigrant residents, and an end to predatory trade deals and political interventions that created the surge of immigration to start with
• An end to the racist war on drugs and school to prison pipeline. And a end to the militarized police, surveillance and prison state, and radical reduction of America's prison population
• An end to Wall Street bail outs and "too big to fail' banks

On Education: Mobilize to simply keep public education in existence

On Energy & Oil: Make wars for oil obsolete: 100% renewables by 2030

• 20 million living-wage jobs, in an emergency Green New Deal to enrich communities not corporations, end climate change and make wars for oil obsolete;
• An emergency transition to a green economy powered by 100% wind, water and sun by 2030;
• And foreign policy based on diplomacy, international law and human rights, rather than global military and economic domination.