The Progressive Party encompasses a social democratic and populist platform. The parties main focus is advocacy for a single-payer health care system through an expansion of the state’s Medicaid program to universal coverage . Other major policy platforms are renewable energy programs such as a high-speed rail system and a phase-out of nuclear energy, prison reforms to reduce the state’s prison population, ending the War on Drugs and programs to end homelessness in the state, primarily through putting funding into Section 8 housing to remove all waitlist, repealing No Child Left Behind (Could this mean that some children do get left behind?) and ending the focus on standardized testing in the school system. The party also has an anti-war stance, advocating for Vermont's national guard to b