Policy List – Federal Candidate Assessment

Voter Guide 2024

Numbered policies are ones that will appear on candidate guides, the policies in italics will be used to assess candidates on the broader policy points and will be included in the notes and evidence section of the guide.

1. Support workplace justice for women
   1. Raise the minimum wage to at least $17/hour
   2. Close the wage gap
2. Strengthen families’ ability to find and/or provide care
   1. Enact the Biden administration’s $16 billion Emergency Child Care Funding Request
   2. Establish a comprehensive system for aging and disability care
3. Unrig our tax system to make the rich pay and support families.
   1. Improve the federal Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit
   2. Make the rich pay their fair share 
4. Support full access to abortion care
   1. Create new federal laws that ensure your right and access to abortion do not depend on where you live or how much money you make
   2. Enforce existing rights that ensure people can get emergency abortion care at hospitals
   3. Eliminate the Weldon and Hyde amendments
5. Protect access to fertility care and birth control
   1. Support the Right to Contraception Act
   2. Create federal protections for fertility care
6. Protect schools, teachers, and libraries from censorship
   1. Oppose book bans.
   2. Oppose curriculum bans and support an honest and inclusive education.
7. Create safe, inclusive, and supportive schools
   1. Invest in police-free K-12 schools – police make school more dangerous and less safe, particularly for students of color. 
   2. Protect students’ rights to free speech, organizing, and assembly free from police violence. 
   3. Incorporate social emotional learning, an honest history of racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and xenophobia, and learning materials and books from diverse authors and that highlight diverse stories, in public schools
8. Support and include LGBTQI+ kids
   1. Protect gender affirming care for all
   2. Clarify through explicit regulations that Title IX protections extend to inclusive protections in athletics.
9. Nominate and confirm federal judges with a strong record of gender justice, and hold them accountable to uniform ethical standards
   1. Pass the Judicial Ethics and Anti-Corruption Act to create stronger recusal standards and an enforceable code of conduct
   2. Nominate and confirm judges with a strong record of supporting gender and racial justice issues and who affirmatively declare they will uphold equality, opportunity for all, individual liberty, and the freedom to make personal decisions about our bodies and relationships
10. Protect access to democracy for all
    1. Protect and expand access to the ballot and restore the Voting Rights Act, including by passing the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act
    2. Unrig our democracy by abolishing the filibuster