A major progressive group on Tuesday unveiled a new agenda that calls on liberal candidates to adopt far-reaching economic proposals, including a federal jobs program meant to help with job losses tied to the rise of artificial intelligence.

Leaders connected with the Working Families Party say they hope the platform will serve as a policy foundation for progressive campaigns in this year’s midterm election. That includes being a standard for challengers to more moderate Democratic incumbents, and helping the Democratic Party writ large embrace a more expansive vision of governance.

“These are the basics of what every Democratic candidate should be talking about,” said Rep. Delia Ramirez, a Democrat from Illinois, who has endorsed the agenda. “And certainly to me, they are a litmus test for anyone who cares about working people.”

The agenda, known as the Working Families Guarantee, is another missive in an ongoing fight between the Democrats’ lefty and centrist factions. Already, the platform has received support from a handful of marquee 2026 Democratic candidates, including progressive Senate hopeful Graham Platner in Maine, Brad Lander in New York’s 10th Congressional District and Bob Brooks in Pennsylvania’s 7th Congressional District.

Democratic Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey have also backed the platform, along with Reps. Greg Casar and Pramila Jayapal.

It is also part of an emerging policy response to the proliferation of artificial intelligence tools and the fear that they could lead to a surge of job losses for blue- and white-collar workers.

The six-point platform shared first with NOTUS calls for a federal jobs program that would seek to supply people with a union job. Some progressive politicians during Trump’s first term promoted federal job programs, but the idea lost momentum with Democratic leaders in part because of the steep price.

The fear that AI could lead to massive job losses in almost all sectors of the economy, however, helped lead WFP to include it in its new policy platform.

Maurice Mitchell, WFP’s national director, said society has arrived at a crossroads.

“One direction is very decidedly pro-robot and another direction is very pro-people,” he said in an interview. “And when you talk to most people, they’re not on the side of robots. But when you talk to a number of politicians, they’re clearly captured by that robot lobby or they’re ambivalent. And that’s not going to cut it in this moment when people are outraged by the impact of data centers in their communities to what it might mean for blue-collar and white-collar jobs.”

The platform, developed by Working Families Power, a nonprofit affiliate of the Working Families Party, also includes calls for affordable housing, “guaranteed low-cost childcare” and 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave for all employees. It also renews a demand for the implementation of a single-payer health care system, a subject of intense debate within the party during its 2020 presidential primary.

The platform does not, as of now, include specific details on how to implement those policies, other than calling for higher taxes on wealthier Americans to raise needed revenue. But WFP officials say it was the result of a comprehensive research program meant to identify the most pressing needs of working-class voters and match them with policy proposals that meet their demands.

Ramirez said that if Democrats want to actually excite their base ahead of the fall’s election and then enact an agenda in Congress that satisfies them, they need to adopt the agenda.

“People are tired of politicians who come to Washington and tinker around the edges of the affordability crisis,” she said. “This is a moment where the base is asking us to be bold about an agenda that meets the scale of the problem.”