"It’s time for a new economic social contract in America — one that guarantees every person in this nation lives a life of dignity.

Policy is policy choice. It’s time we made different choices."

• The right to a useful job that pays a living wage.
• The right to a voice in the workplace through a union and collective bargaining.
• The right to comprehensive quality health care.
• The right to a complete cost-free public education and access to broadband internet.
• The right to decent, safe, affordable housing.
• The right to a clean environment and a healthy planet.
• The right to a meaningful endowment of resources at birth, and a secure retirement.
• The right to sound banking and financial services.
• The right to an equitable and economically fair justice system.
• The right to recreation and participation in civic and democratic life.

“I want an America as good as its promise. The people of our district deserve a government that prioritizes the dignity of working people at the center of the pandemic response.”

• Ensure all communities have access to the COVID-19 vaccines
• Provide recurring federal relief for families and businesses that is fairly distributed to everyone
• Raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour
• Create nationwide PPE workplace safety standards
• Continue the moratorium on evictions

“We live in a country where our veterans are living on the streets without treatment for service-related mental health issues; we have people who are too afraid to go out and see a doctor because they can’t afford it; and we have Black women dying in childbirth at disproportionate numbers in the 21st century. This is America and this is unacceptable!”

• Provide everyone in America comprehensive health care coverage without premiums, deductibles, copays or surprise bills through a Medicare for All system
• Prevent drug companies and insurers from gouging patients
• Invest in infrastructure so every community has real access to health care
• Quantify and eliminate health care disparities

“We want our WHOLE DAMN DOLLAR!”

• A living wage that adjusts for inflation
• Strengthen and expand unions
• Equal pay for equal work
• Expand workplace protections for the LGBTQIA+ community by passing the Equality Act
• Make credit and banking services available to all communities
• Make the ultra-wealthy and large corporations pay their fair share
• Increased protections and employment opportunities for our disabled community

"The public education system needs to be shored up, and we have to invest our tax dollars to ensure that a child will not be discriminated against or treated differently because of the zip code they live in."

• Increase federal and state funding for early childhood education and child care, public schools and educators, and community schools and afterschool programs
• Ensure the right of teachers and their unions to collectively bargain for better wages, benefits and working conditions
• Free public college and cancel student debt

“We are on the edge of a housing crisis like no other. Federal, state and local governments must recognize that housing is a human right. We can start by extending the ban on evictions during a deadly pandemic and quickly act to make sweeping investments in affordable housing.”

• Include substantial investments in new affordable housing construction
• Effectively address homelessness
• Minimize gentrification and protect communities
• Allow all communities the opportunity to build intergenerational wealth through homeownership

"The criminal justice system is inherently unjust to Black and Brown people. We need to completely reimagine how we do policing in this country and while we are at it, let’s fix the entire system from the judiciary to the streets."

• Implement alternatives to incarceration where appropriate
• End mandatory minimum sentencing and the death penalty
• Legalize marijuana
• Create national policing and use of force standards
• Ensure law enforcement accountability
• End for-profit prisons and immigration detention centers
• Bail Reform

"The War on Drugs was a failure, but more importantly it was a farce – ultimately, drug laws were used as a tool to profile Black people and Black communities, in the name of public safety. The arrests and incarceration that resulted from the War on Drugs disrupted lives, separated families and caused great economic and social harm to Black and Brown communities. In the wake of cannabis legalization, these harms need to be repaired by requiring a social equity approach to all emerging cannabis markets."

• De-incarceration – people should not be in jail for selling cannabis, when others are making a fortune for the same thing; furthermore, the records of those who were convicted for selling cannabis should be immediately expunged
• Decriminalization – the federal government should listen to the will of the people and de-schedule cannabis immediately
• Economic Equity – economic and business support should be provided for Black and Brown entrepreneurs to eliminate the barriers of entry into the cannabis market; furthermore, tax funds from cannabis sales should be used to repair economic and social harm to communities that were disproportionately targeted in the War on Drugs

"One thing that we do have in common as human beings, and not just in our country, but all across the world, is that we need a stable environment. We need Mother Nature – we need Mother Earth – to be well, and we are making her sick."

• Clean water, clean food and clean air for all
• Create millions of good paying jobs by re-inventing our energy and transportation systems through a Green New Deal
• Strengthen national parks and natural lands