Candidate for Massachusetts House of Representatives - 12th Middlesex District in 2024 Massachusetts Primary Election.
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Get StartedBill also supports efforts to prevent outside parties from purchasing data to track people seeking reproductive healthcare, including across state lines. Learn more
Bill has been a longtime opponent of the cash bail system (in contrast with a real risk and safety assessment), a vocal supporter of the call for a moratorium on building a new women’s prison (in favor of diversion for more women), an advocate for parole reform, and a supporter of simple measures to help get returning community members set up for success instead of setting them up to fail and be re-arrested. Learn more
Every child has the right to a free, high-quality public K-12 education. Learn more
We should also provide free after-school programs for older children. Additionally, we need to expand the state’s compensation program for relatives and neighbors who provide unofficial childcare to working families or are raising grandchildren and other younger family members while a parent is unable to do so. Learn more
Environmental pollution and greenhouse gas emissions are already driving up our healthcare costs, flooding our homes, and reducing our quality of life. Massachusetts is one of the fastest-warming states in the country, along with the rest of the New England states, due to climate change in the Gulf of Maine. Urgent measures are needed at the state level to prepare our communities physically and financially for climate resilience and pollution reduction mandates. Learn more
Massachusetts must maintain and strengthen reasonable steps to keep firearms out of the hands of people who should not have them (including minors) and to limit unnecessary and intimidating public displays of firearms. Learn more
The Commonwealth also needs to do more to support rural healthcare, to improve outcomes for nearby residents and reduce the growing pressure on the major urban hospitals. The private sector is failing on providing stable, reliable, accessible rural and community healthcare in Massachusetts and all over the United States, and this affects all of us downstream in one way or another. Learn more
We need to rethink our approach completely because of the expected surge in demand for nursing home capacity, home care, and adult day care in the coming decades as our population with advanced years and significant care needs grows rapidly. Learn more
We also need healthcare to be free at the point of service and people should not be on the phone arguing with their insurance company from the hospital. Learn more
Bill Humphrey supports tenant protections such as right-to-counsel, no-fault eviction record sealing, tenant opportunity to purchase (already present in mobile home parks), rent stabilization local options, and other measures currently being considered by advocates and legislators to help people avoid losing their homes. Learn more
We also need new housing for seniors to downsize to affordably within their own communities, so that they can age in place if they don’t want to move away. Currently, municipal governments do not have local flexibility from the Commonwealth to promote this policy objective. Learn more
Housing is a human right. Currently the Commonwealth is experiencing a serious housing crisis, affecting the middle class, working class, and the very poor. Learn more
Public transit funding increases should come from equitable and progressive taxation, not constant fare hikes. Bill Humphrey supports a fare-free system of buses and subways to increase ridership and ease of use. Learn more
Bill Humphrey supports the effort to change the law to allow the unionization of the legislative staffers in Massachusetts. Their union has been seeking recognition for some time now. Learn more
Bill Humphrey is committed to opposing worker “misclassification” because he himself has often been an “independent contractor” worker, even when it was sometimes basically a permanent job. We need greater protections and rights for these workers, so that they are not assuming all the risks and costs of doing business for the companies they work for under the pretense of “flexibility.” (One specific sector where this is a huge problem is “tech” companies operating transportation networks and ride-shares.). Learn more
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