Issues

We support policies, programs, legislation and candidates who will work to accomplish the following:

Education

• Adequate funding for public schools.
• Increase teacher pay and benefits to retain and attract qualified educators.
• Reduce class size and testing.
• Increase pre-K, technical education, and teacher preparation programs.
• Address student educational-emotional-social needs including those resulting from the loss of schooling during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Environment

• Maintain and expand essential environmental regulations.
• Prohibit offshore oil development activities in the Atlantic.
• Encourage the use of alternative, clean energy including wind and solar.

Economic and Social Justice

• Maintain policies and programs and pass legislation that promote fairness and equal opportunity.
• Pass legislation for: paid sick leave, paid maternity and paternity leave, and child care subsidy programs for low income families.
• Pass legislation to fight hate crime.

Women’s rights

• Provide: equal pay for equal work, universal child care, and federally guaranteed paid family leave.
• Work to elect a federal representatives who will reinstate the protections of Roe v Wade at a national level.
• Advocate against state and federal legislation that attempts to enshrine fetal personhood.
• Support low or no cost access to all safe and effective birth control.
• Pass the Equal Rights Amendment.
• Pass legislation to fight domestic violence.

Health care

• Expand Medicaid in South Carolina.
• Provide access to affordable health care for all Americans.
• Provide resources to counter biological threats, enhance pandemic preparedness and achieve global health security.

Gun control

• Prohibit open carry and arming teachers.
• Ban assault weapons, high-capacity magazines, and bump stocks.
• Require universal background checks and red-flag laws that keep guns away from violent offenders.
• Raise the minimum age to purchase a gun to 21.

Foreign Policy

• Cooperate with our allies to maintain peace through diplomacy rather than military intervention.
• Assist countries that promote democratic ideals and the protection of basic human rights.
• Work with the international community to limit the spread of infectious diseases.
• Maintain a military sufficient to defend the U.S. and discourage aggression by our adversaries.
• Carry out programs to improve living standards in developing countries.
• Maintain a strong NATO and advocate for selective engagement.
• Protect the U.S. from terrorism.
• Maintain a secure border without a wall; respect the dignity of unauthorized immigrants and provide pathways for them to achieve legal status.