Candidate for Pennsylvania House of Representatives - District 14 in 2020 Pennsylvania General Election.
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Get StartedThe Shell cracker plant has provided a great economic boom for our area by employing over 5,000 workers...temporarily. Once construction is complete, there will only be 600 permanent positions available. We need to continue to work off of this economic boom and work for more sustainable industries coming into the region to provide more permanent and more stable employment. Learn more
I believe that every student in the Commonwealth deserves the best education possible. The current education funding model in Pennsylvania is broken and needs to be fixed to ensure a fairer system of education for all districts and all students. Pennsylvania needs to continue to improve investments in education in order to close one of the worst education funding gaps in the nation. Districts are forced to rely too heavily on local funding, which results in an unfair education system for poorer schools and an unfair property tax burden on every resident in the Commonwealth. I will support continued increases in education funding and work to close the education funding gap. Learn more
Pennsylvania needs quality healthcare that our residents can afford. More and more states are passing legislation to impose a price cap on insulin and it is past due for Pennsylvania to do the same in an effort to combat the skyrocketing cost of the life-saving drug. We shouldn’t end there. We need to secure lower prescription prices across the board and safeguard Medicaid expansion and CHIP funding. Nobody should have to choose between paying for life-saving prescription drugs and paying their bills. Learn more
We need Harrisburg to make infrastructure a top priority. The American Society of Civil Engineers gave Pennsylvania a “C-” on its infrastructure report card due to components of our infrastructure serving well beyond its intended lifespan, and as a result, is deteriorating. Pennsylvania needs to divert more funding into improving infrastructure, not only to fix the failing systems, but to reap the future increased economic benefits of a prosperous infrastructure. Learn more
With income inequality and stagnant wages, unions are an important asset for workers now more than ever. Unions are needed for more workers in Pennsylvania to increase wages and benefits for our working-class. Pennsylvanians need more legislators that will fight hard for our unions to increase collective bargaining rights and ensure that we NEVER become a “Right to Work” (for less) state. Learn more
We are past due for a more reasonable minimum wage. All bordering states to Pennsylvania have a higher minimum wage and it is time to join our neighbors. I support gradual increases in minimum wage to keep up with the cost of inflation. When increasing the minimum wage in gradual, small increases, workers gain more spending power to spur the economy and the gradual increases aren't enough to induce inflation. Learn more
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