


A Progressive Policy Agenda Supporting Good Governance, For Us and By Us
Implement COVID-19 relief policies that centers those most marginalized
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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.
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Continue reduction of prison and jail population during COVID and beyond; sponsor bill implementing restorative justice alternative to the criminal legal system.
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Support hazard pay for frontline workers.
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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.
Environment & Well-being
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Pipeline Solutions in the district and NJ at large.
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Strengthen and expand NJ Plug-In Electric Vehicle (PEV) Rebate Program.
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Support air pollution solutions in NJ.
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Improve drinking water standards and natural bodies of water in NJ.
Smart Taxation to Support Health & Redefine Poverty
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Introduce a Special Windfall Profit Tax on pharmaceuticals and health insurance companies in NJ to expand Medicare and resolve opioid crisis.
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Introduce and support taxes on stock transactions in NJ to support giving tax credits to small family businesses.
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Sponsor a bill to provide hazard pay to low-income frontline workers in the pandemic.
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Increase NJ poverty line.
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Support expansion of Medicaid and adopt healthcare for all.
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Establish programs to solve opioid crisis in LD 16 and NJ.
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New Jersey Good Governance & Elections Reforms
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Sponsor a bill to eliminate the party line on NJ ballot.
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Propose non-partisan publicly funded election program to support candidates from marginalized communities to run for public office in NJ.
Strengthen NJ Public University and Community College Tuition-Free Programs
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Support legislation to expand the Community College Opportunity Grant Program (CCOG) to include four-year colleges.
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Increase the cap of household gross income, the requirement of the CCOG, from $65K to $80K or higher.
Improve the current property tax relief policies
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Expand property tax reliefs outlined in Governor Murphy’s 2020 Budget Deal