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