| HEALTHCARE: | - Supports Medicaid Expansion
- Supports the development of a co-responder model for cases of mental health
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| EDUCATION: | - Increased teacher pay across the board
- Protect parents’ rights to determine their child’s education by involving parents in the policy-making process
- Work with colleges to lower the cost of public universities and evaluate programs for free community college
- Supports legislation that provides more counselors, psychologists, and social workers for schools
- Adequately fund schools through the passage of the first school construction bond in twenty years
- Supports the NC Promise Program
- Reinvest in school sports and arts programs
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| ECONOMY: | - Supports lower taxes for working and middle-class families
- Lower the prices of gasoline and utility bills by supporting policies that foster greater energy independence
- Raise the tipped minimum wage, currently $2.13 an hour
- Offer more tax breaks for small businesses and simplify the tax code
- Engage with small businesses and reduce the cost of starting and maintaining small businesses
- Support statewide infrastructure legislation
- Committed to universal broadband.
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| CRIMINAL JUSTICE: | - Support mental health resources for law enforcement agencies and Sheriff’s offices
- Ensure funding for expansion of career and technical education to streamline the recruitment of law enforcement
- Reinforce school and community programs designed to strengthen community policing so that police forces look more like the people they serve
- Raise officers’ pay and increase funding for resources to create the best law enforcement agencies in the country
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| VOTING RIGHTS: | - Support a bipartisan, independent redistricting committee
- Support legislation to reduce the cost of campaigning for public office
- Champion voting rights for all citizens
- Support legislation to end the partisanship of our judicial elections
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