For the Democratic Party (and Hillary Clinton, if she wins the Democratic nomination) to effectively take control and reverse the political tide back in favor of the Democrats, she must create a modern domestic policy geared towards, and geared to help, the working class and those in poverty.

In 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected on the basis of his very progressive “New Deal” policy. Other great Democratic presidents emulated FDR’s success with the “Great Society” and the “New Frontier,” championed by LBJ and JFK respectively. FDR’s New Deal policy, and is its successors, keep Democrats in the majority until 1969.

If Hillary Clinton wants to swift the tide in her and her party’s favor she needs a progressive domestic agenda. History has shown that when Democrats organize their thoughts into a cohesive plan, they tend to come out dominating.

Clinton’s own New Deal needs to include programs to support a better living standard for our workers. In recent years income inequality has risen, and if she wants to win in 2016, she needs to help re-shuffle the economic deck so we can all play a new, fair hand.

Campaign finance must be the first thing to be reformed. Currently, corporations can donate undisclosed millions in political campaigns. The politicians elected with the help of the corporations are more inclined to serve their million-dollar donating corporations, rather than their people. If Clinton enforces a reversal of free-trade deals (which help send jobs overseas), she can call for an effective raise in the corporate tax rate. Clinton’s New Deal must call for more power in the hands of the workers, and less power in the hands of gigantic corporations. Clinton must call for an effective breakup in the power of large corporations, big banks, and interest groups that run our country from behind the scenes if she wants to be elected in 2016.

Clinton’s New Deal needs a “middle-class economics” plan, which includes smart tax cuts for the middle class, not the 1%. Her New Deal needs to include universal four-year college, as a way to move more of our citizens into higher paying jobs needed to launch themselves into the middle and upper classes. If Clinton focuses more on middle-class American workers and their educations, she can launch millions into prosperity.

Clinton’s plan for the working-class and the poor needs one gigantic centerpiece of legislation: a raise in the federal minimum wage. If Clinton’s New Deal successfully obtains a higher wage for workers, we can increase productivity and our workers’ purchasing power in a new market. Raising the wage will also give a lot of poor people on benefits the incentive to work an actual decent-paying job. Clinton’s focus on the poor also needs to include the creation of a single-payer healthcare system, so that the uninsured rate can be closed even further. A combination of a good education, a good-paying job, and good incentives to participate in our new economy will raise millions out of poverty, and millions from the lower-middle class into the upper-middle class.

Clinton’s New Deal also needs to work to guarantee more rights for women, LGBTQ+ people, people of color, and other marginalized groups. Equal-pay-for-equal-work legislation to guarantee the closing of the wage gap for these marginalized groups is a must for a modern economy. Passing legislation for LGBTQ+ citizens such as a crack-down on hate crimes, fixing employment discrimination and mending housing discrimination; passing health bills that extend sexual education and freedoms; and support for affirmative action plans. These essential bills for equality must be passed if we want to move forward into a brighter future for America.

Hillary needs to offer us a new deal, something we can use to merge our economy into a more effective, functioning, equal society.