Health Care
- Affordable healthcare
- Affordable prescription drugs
- Build a more comprehensive treatment such as rehabilitation and recovery support system
- How to identify substances uses disorders: and how to get patients help
- Ensure access to both mental health and substance use disorder services
- Take steps to make sure that private and public insurance coverage follows the law
- Help people who are incarcerated have access to substance use disorder treatment and mental treatment
- Fight the stigma that keeps people from treatment and successful long-term recovery
Education Thrive by 25
- Tuition-free community college
- Invest in the states four Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)
- Invest in high-quality technology
- Pay teachers accordingly
- Ensure college affordability
- Free college for families with an income below $150,000
Environment
- Improve water quality
- Improve the health of the oyster and crab population
- Increasing use of renewable energy portfolio standard, so that 50% of the state’s energy in Maryland will come from a renewable source by 2030
- Reducing greenhouse gas emissions and tackling climate change
- Increasing recycling
- Endorses an increase in Maryland renewable energy to 50% and ultimately to 100% carbon-free energy
- Deny permission to build pipelines in Maryland which could jeopardize the water supply
Economy and Jobs
- Raising minimum wage to $15 in Maryland
- Earned sick leave for employees
- Respecting labor and workers’ rights
Aging
- Ensure good health care
- Prevent elder abuse
- Encouraging retirement savings and protecting retirement income
- Funding facilities and supportive housing for the elderly
- Supporting elderly living at home
- Elderly above the age 62 who receive federal food stamps will receive at least $30 per month for food.
Immigration
- Ensure that our hard-working immigrants can thrive in our state.
- Maintain a strong relationship and trust between our police and our communities
- Establish a program to assist naturalization-eligible Maryland residents finance
- Ensure affordable high-quality health care for all Maryland residents
Rights
- Fight sexual harassment and assault
- Establish a state commission on sexual harassment to prevent harassment
- Achieving the freedom to marry for gay and lesbian couples in Maryland
- Stand up against racism, bigotry. Harassment and discrimination
Affordable Housing
- Enforce laws the prohibit discrimination in housing
- Implement a “housing first” program to solve the growing problem of homelessness in our communities
- Implement a long-term plan to increase affordable housing
- Supporting housing and specialized housing to end both veterans’ homelessness and chronic homelessness
Veterans
- Continue to support veterans and provide for employment and educational opportunities
- Support programs to help provide startup funds and low-interest loans for veterans’ businesses
- Support programs to assist veteran-owned businesses become certified for federal and state contracts
- Support programs to provide mental health and other health care and support services for veterans.
Gun Violence
- Keep dangerous firearms off our streets
- Enact the bill banning the sales of bump stocks and other accessory devices, such as automatic weapons
- Support measures to better trace in gun crimes to determine how and where guns are diverted to the underground market
Transportation
- Build and maintain a strong statewide transportation system
- Advocates for action to ease severe traffic on the American Legion Bridge on I-495, I-270, and parts of Prince George’s County
- Supports the Red Line light rail project in Baltimore which was abruptly canceled by the current Governor
- Dedicated to improving metro safety and ensuring safety
- Long-term sustainable funding and the creation of regional transportation authorities
Animal Welfare
- Push for a law to require that animal research labs provide for the adoption of dogs and cats after experiments have concluded
- Prevent animal cruelty and require better living and transportation conditions for farm animals
