Sonia Chang-Diaz in Gubernatorial campaign websites

On Abortion: Secure Roe v. Wade regardless of federal action

Strongly supporting reproductive rights, including backing measures to expand realistic access to family planning services and secure the standards set in Roe v. Wade, no matter what happens on the federal level. Source: 2022 TK Gubernatorial campaign website TK.com Apr 15, 2022

On Civil Rights: Focus on equity in recovery/infrastructure spending

Implement rigorous goal-setting, tracking, and targeting of resources in the billions of dollars' worth of spending the state will undertake to deploy federal recovery and infrastructure funding--similar to the Racial Equity Scorecard that Sonia helped design for the 2021 American Rescue Plan Act spending package. Massachusetts has the chance to make significant leaps toward equity with the jobs, contracts, and programming these funds will create. Source: 2022 TK Gubernatorial campaign website TK.com Apr 15, 2022

On Education: Universal early education; debt-free public college

Establish universal early education as an affordable option for all families.
Fully implement K-12 education funding reforms from the Student Opportunity Act, expand behavioral health services, and dismantle the school to prison pipeline.
Provide debt-free public college for all Massachusetts students.

Source: 2022 TK Gubernatorial campaign website TK.com Apr 15, 2022

On Education: Provide comprehensive LGBTQ-inclusive sex education

Passing the Healthy Youth Act, to provide comprehensive LGBTQ-inclusive sex education.
Ensuring that people are able to list their sexual orientation and gender identity in critical state services systems, to better identify and address potential disparities in needs, service delivery and outcomes.

Source: 2022 TK Gubernatorial campaign website TK.com Apr 15, 2022

On Energy & Oil: 100% renewable, carbon-free electric grid by 2030

Pass a MA Green New Deal to build our new green energy economy, electrify our infrastructure across the state, and create good jobs with family-sustaining wages.
Establish a 100% renewable, carbon-free electric grid by 2030.
Eliminate all carbon emissions from new buildings by 2030 and transition existing buildings to become zero-carbon by 2045.
Decarbonize, expand, and make fare-free public transit to reduce fossil fuel emissions and build a 21st century transit system.

Source: 2022 TK Gubernatorial campaign website TK.com Apr 15, 2022

On Families & Children: Better post-partum healthcare for low-income people

Filing legislation to provide better healthcare access for low-income people who have just given birth, including increasing access to post-partum visits as well as long-acting reversible contraceptives. Pushing for laws to institute paid family leave, protect women from sexual assault on college campuses, and ensure pay equity. Source: 2022 TK Gubernatorial campaign website TK.com Apr 15, 2022

On Government Reform: Increase the number of minority-majority districts

Establish systems to ensure that the voices and interests of historically underrepresented groups are more equitably represented in state government through appointments, hiring, and commission structures. Sonia has made this a priority throughout her work, dating all the way back to 2011 when she served as Vice Chair of the Redistricting Committee and successfully advocated to increase the number of legislative districts in which the majority of the population was comprised of people of color. Source: 2022 TK Gubernatorial campaign website TK.com Apr 15, 2022

On Health Care: Establish a single-payer "Medicare for All" system

We need to end the ever-increasing premiums, high deductibles and copays, and skyrocketing prescription drug prices that put health care out of reach for too many. That's why Sonia supports legislation to establish a single-payer "Medicare for All" system, following the lead of many countries around the world that have better health outcomes at a fraction of the cost. Source: 2022 TK Gubernatorial campaign website TK.com Apr 15, 2022

On Jobs: Create jobs through the state's green energy transition

Create tens of thousands of new, good-paying jobs in Massachusetts through the state's green energy transition, while creating workforce development opportunities for women, people of color, and workers without college degrees. Source: 2022 TK Gubernatorial campaign website TK.com Apr 15, 2022

On Technology: Expand public transit; move to a fare-free system

Expand our public transit systems statewide to reduce fossil fuel emissions and connect communities--including developing East-West Rail to knit the whole state together and a robust, electrified Regional Rail system with all-day 15-minute to 30-minute train service. Incentivize use of public transit by moving to a fare-free system. Source: 2022 TK Gubernatorial campaign website TK.com Apr 15, 2022

On Welfare & Poverty: Make investments aimed at ending homelessness

Make investments aimed at ending homelessness, including in more transitional housing support and longer-term housing paired with supportive services for individuals struggling with substance use disorder and/or mental illness. Source: 2022 TK Gubernatorial campaign website TK.com Apr 15, 2022

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