Delaware must prioritize working people over corporate profits. Here's the agenda Branden will bring to the State House.
Delaware is part of a national reckoning around the harms inflicted by policing and the criminal legal system. We believe that our resources should be going to programs that actually reduce crime and suffering and that our criminal apparatus is transparent and being held accountable.
Over the last several decades, we have seen increased wealth inequality, skyrocketing costs for basic needs, and good-paying jobs have been leaving Delaware. In the last few years, we have raised the minimum wage to $15 by 2025 and passed Paid Family and Medical Leave, but there is more we can do to protect working families.
The promise of a democratic society is visible in few places more than public schools. And yet in the United States today, the grim reality is that public education is a driver of inequality, not a weapon against it. In Delaware, school segregation and student outcomes are worse now than they were 30 years ago.
We support the tenets of the Green New Deal, which calls to bring the US to carbon neutrality in a way that creates and maintains good-paying jobs and justice for our most affected communities.
Discrimination against LGBTQ+ people, women, minorities, and other historically marginalized groups in our communities persists in spite of recent advances in equality. We believe that all people are created equal and that we need to actively work to right historical wrongs.
In America, we have a private health insurance system which takes more money than other countries and generates worse results. In Delaware, there's only so much we can do to fix the whole system but there are some clear changes that can be made.
Delaware is increasingly facing an affordable housing shortage. Generations of racist policy have locked people of color out of opportunities to build family wealth, and now all but the wealthiest young Americans are completely cut out from the prospect of ever owning a home. Meanwhile, tenants and homeowners who do find housing are often placed in precarious positions for reasons outside their control.
A strong labor movement is essential to the economic well-being of working people, and a bedrock of democracy. Branden will support comprehensive and aggressive measures to shift the balance of power from bosses to workers.
Working families across Delaware are struggling under the burden of rising utility costs. No one should have to choose between keeping the lights on and putting food on the table. Delaware must prioritize affordability, accountability, and consumer protection.
Reforming our elections to protect the right to vote, ensure fair representation and redistricting, and reduce the influence of money in politics has always been an urgent necessity for a functioning democracy. While Delaware's Supreme Court struck down same day registration and vote by mail, we still need to fight to expand access to voting.
