Issue Position: Women & Families

Issue Position

Sheila Jackson Lee knows the challenges that working women face. She has fought for equal pay for equal work for women, against discrimination and sexual harassment, and for paid sick days so working people can better provide for their families. She has fought successfully to restore funding for the State Children's Health Insurance Program, to prevent cuts to Head Start, and to increase funding for public schools.

Sheila Jackson Lee has been a champion for criminal justice reform and juvenile justice reform. She strongly supports bail reform and has authored bills to help families of the incarcerated. And Sheila is fighting every day to end the epidemic of mass incarceration that unfairly targets African Americans.

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