Issues That Concern Us

• Children and Family Issues:
   
  • Adequate funding of social programs for basic services to families in need
  • Children requiring protective services and foster care
  • Health care for needy, uninsured children and their families
  • Affordable, available, accessible housing for all who need it
  • Economic security and jobs with wages that can support families
     
• Criminal Justice Issues:
   
  • Progressive correctional efforts and reentry programs that work
  • Fair and just sentencing
  • Opposition to the death penalty
  • Juvenile justice and specialty courts (i.e. for the mentally ill, drug offenders, and homeless)
     
• Health Care Issues:
   
  • Affordable and accessible health care for all
  • Health insurance reform that protects the vulnerable among us who need coverage
  • Mental Health access to care
     
• Revenue Issues:
   
  • A fair, reliable & stable tax system
  • Sufficient revenue to meet society’s basic needs & to support desirable economic development fair to all
     
• Other Concerns:
   
  • Environmental protection efforts
  • Issues of social justice and human dignity—i.e. homelessness, access to services, full participation in democratic institutions of government