RHODE ISLAND FOR ALL

OUR PLATFORM

Our platform puts the working families of Rhode Island before special interests and the ultra-wealthy. 

• Ensure that all working families in Rhode Island can afford housing

• Extend the eviction moratorium throughout the pandemic

• Implement a utility shutoff moratorium throughout the pandemic

• Build 10,000 green affordable homes for working families

• Implement statewide rent control to ensure that rent increases do not exceed 4% annually

• Enact Medicare-for-All style universal healthcare

• Ensure every RI resident has mental, dental, hearing, and vision care

• Take on big pharma to make prescription drugs affordable

• Protect reproductive freedom

• Tax the rich to fund our schools, create smaller class sizes, and improve our school buildings

• Ensure that all public school teachers earn at least $60,000 each year

• Help small businesses recover from the pandemic

• Pass a $19 per hour minimum wage ($39,520 annually)

• Take on the fossil fuel industry to ensure clean air, clean water, and clean energy for all

• Achieve 100% clean electricity by 2028 and net zero emissions by 2040 (first in the country)

• Shut down corporate polluters in frontline communities with a just transition for workers

• Preserve our natural resources, eliminate clearcutting, expand regenerative agriculture, and guarantee public access to our shoreline

• Create thousands of good union jobs

• Expand public transportation, electrify all buses, and make the bus free

• Build 10,000 green, affordable homes for working families

• Vaccine requirement to enter public spaces including restaurants, bars, and stadiums (except for people with valid medical or religious reasons not to get vaccinated)

• Implement a statewide mask mandate in public spaces

• Expand paid sick leave

• Legalize cannabis

• End mass incarceration

• End cash bail

• Ban for-profit prisons

• Ensure police accountability

• Invest funding in mental health services and drug overdose prevention

• End family separations and provide drivers’ licenses to undocumented Rhode Islanders

• End the influence of corporate lobbyist money

• Enact public campaign financing

• Make election day a statewide holiday

• Repeal the voter ID law

Our Pledge:

• No Corporate PAC Donations

• No Corporate Lobbyist Donations

• No Fossil Fuel Donations

Meet the candidates running on this platform