Issue Position: Family

Issue Position

Ensuring prosperity for America's middle-class

Provide an infrastructure and support system to families and ensure that they have well-paying jobs and a livable wage to maintain a standard of living that will not require them working two and three jobs.

Clear the path for homeownership for all Americans with a special emphasis on veterans who deserve a piece of the country they served.

Strengthening families

Ensure access to affordable, high-quality childcare

Incentive states to to ensure that measures that help families in crisis emphasize solutions that promote family unity.

Send a grant to the states to allow them to expand voucher programs from high quality day care and Pre-K.

Develop an accessible and effective infrastructure for families in crisis, including access to mental healthcare.

Expand LIHEAP to allow it to more effectively carry our its mission of assisting low income families with their energy bills.

Keep families together by working with immigration officials and supporting legislation in Congress that provides an affordable, reasonable and humane path to citizenship.

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