Women’s rights
- Equal pay for women before 2042 by preventing employers from asking salary history
- Paid parental leave for 12 weeks will receive 70% of full paycheck
- Provide affordable childcare by providing funding to increase the market value of Maryland's childcare voucher, creating childcare apps, and providing tax credits for companies that provide child care
- Provide tax subsidies and grant institutions for women entrepreneurs
- End sexual harassment in the workplace by auditing incidents among state employees and more.
- Prevent sexual assault on college campuses by creating task forces focused on taking preventative steps and requiring Maryland public schools to establish resource centers.
Environment
- Invest in renewable clean energy and infrastructure for a statewide recycling and composting system
- Create green jobs
- Protect the environment by instituting a statewide ban on Styrofoam and plastic bags
- The Baker Greenprint for Maryland plan
- Aims to make Maryland the first state with 100% clean energy and zero waste
- Resilient communities
- Restore the Chesapeake Bay
- Improve Maryland air quality
Campaign Finance
- Introduce legislation that would prohibit candidates from receiving direct campaign contributions from corporations or Political Action Committees.
- Change the Maryland Election Law similar to Montgomery and Howard County systems
- Create legislation that would require Maryland Super PACs to contribute funds, proportional to their total expenditures, to pay for the Maryland Democracy Fund.
Education
- Increase teacher salaries
- Create more dual-enrollment programs
- Expand universal pre-k and full-day kindergarten
- Affordable higher learning
Infrastructure
- Transportation policy will focus on investing in infrastructure that advances sustainability and economic and social equity for all
- Create solutions to our transit problems that would do more than take more cars off the road
- Expand economic opportunity and mobility
- Support metro stations and affordable housing to accommodate the increased demand to live in transit-rich areas
Criminal Justice Reform & Public Safety
- Strengthening the relationship between law enforcement and the community
- Mandatory sensitivity and implicit bias training for law enforcement
- Increase diversity among police offices
- Transforming Neighborhood Initiative which will dedicate government resources to reduce the disparity between communities
- Develop forgotten neighborhoods across the state
- Always looking to address the following issues which he thinks create crime
- Lack of jobs
- Poverty
- Poor education
- Reduce prison population
Record and Vision
- Created 16,000+ jobs
- Reduced crime by 55%
- Public school enrollment and graduation rates are increasing
- $9 billion of economic development
- Diversified education
- Property values are up 61%
