A Progressive Policy Agenda Supporting Good Governance, For Us and By Us

Implement COVID-19 relief policies that centers those most marginalized

Enact legislation to provide fully government-funded child care support programs as the current subsidies are woefully insufficient. This will help pull more women, especially in low-income families and families of color, into the labor market, and especially help those who were already forced to leave their jobs to take care of their children.
Continue reduction of prison and jail population during COVID and beyond; sponsor bill implementing restorative justice alternative to the criminal legal system.
Support hazard pay for frontline workers.
Introduce Summer school programs for students to catch-up as many kids from low-income families and families of color fell behind due to COVID.

Introduce a Special Windfall Profit Tax on pharmaceuticals and health insurance companies in NJ to expand Medicare and resolve opioid crisis.
Introduce and support taxes on stock transactions in NJ to support giving tax credits to small family businesses.
Sponsor a bill to provide hazard pay to low-income frontline workers in the pandemic.
Increase NJ poverty line.
Support expansion of Medicaid and adopt healthcare for all.
Establish programs to solve opioid crisis in LD 16 and NJ.
New Jersey Good Governance & Elections Reforms
Sponsor a bill to eliminate the party line on NJ ballot.
Propose non-partisan publicly funded election program to support candidates from marginalized communities to run for public office in NJ.

Support legislation to expand the Community College Opportunity Grant Program (CCOG) to include four-year colleges.
Increase the cap of household gross income, the requirement of the CCOG, from $65K to $80K or higher.