A larger investment in Indiana’s infrastructure is needed to bring the economy of the future to the Hoosier State. The Hoosier state needs investment in our critical infrastructure to ensure that Hoosiers have access to safe drinking water, broadband access, clean energy, criminal justice reform, and stronger and safer communities. All Hoosiers deserve to live safe, prosperous lives with equality and freedom.

This investment is vital to improve, test, and upgrade water infrastructure by removing and mitigating lead within Hoosier water supplies.

Expanding access to broadband across Indiana is crucial, especially within rural areas.

Building climate resilience and expanding green energy initiatives are of paramount importance to our communities.

Hoosiers deserve a criminal justice system that is focused on rehabilitation and reform. The system must be fair, regardless of race, sex, gender, or social-economic status—eliminating the prison industrial complex and school to prison pipeline.

Hoosiers deserve to live in safe and strong communities. This would include common sense gun legislation, education, equality, and increased opportunities for all.

Indiana’s economy is behind. The cost of living keeps rising, but incomes have not kept up. We are working to ensure families can do more than make ends meet—we want families to flourish. Hoosiers should not have to work more than one job to provide for their family; we want an economy that allows for work-life balance, and this requires livable wages. We advocate for a cost-of-living wage for all Hoosiers, an increase in the state’s minimum wage, and equal pay for equal work.

To ensure we have good wages and jobs, we need to attract employers that pay well, doing so in a responsible manner and being good stewards of public funds. Policies need to be effective to ensure both the employer and employer have an equitable relationship, including overturning “right to work” policies. We need to identify innovative solutions to ensure the workforce has the skills to succeed.

The Hoosier state needs to decriminalize cannabis. Hoosiers are losing out on a booming economic opportunity that would provide jobs, tax revenue, criminal justice reform, and an innovative product industry. Decriminalizing and regulating cannabis is one strategy to improve the economic outlook for Hoosiers.

Hoosier families need to be able to have a family without the cost of childcare being 20% or more of a Hoosier’s median gross salary. We believe in the expansion and continuation of the Child Tax Credit to lift over 80,000 Hoosier children out of poverty. With quality fully funded public education and affordable higher education, the dream of home ownership is achievable.

Healthcare is a human right. We believe, advocate for, and endorse Medicare for All as a single payer universal healthcare provider. As a wealthy nation, it is a moral outrage for 27.5 million Americans, 8% of whom are Hoosiers, to be uninsured. Rural Indiana has few providers with 17 counties without a hospital and 34 counties without maternity care—this is unacceptable. As a country, we spend nearly twice as much as other developed nations, yet our system performs poorly. The undue influence of the insurance and pharmaceutical industries have allowed predatory pricing and competition avoidance within the system.

Reproductive healthcare is a human right. Everyone has the right to bodily autonomy and reproductive freedom, especially pregnant people. Family planning and reproductive healthcare should be affordable and accessible to all Hoosier families, including IVF and contraception.

Hoosiers should live in healthier communities with lower healthcare costs.

Healthy Opportunities: Hoosiers deserve the opportunity to utilize green spaces and have a healthy lifestyle. This includes affordable access to healthy food. Addressing food deserts and costs are a top priority.

Mental Health: This includes access to and affordable mental health care. We are committed to access and treatment for addiction, mental health, mental health crisis, and behavioral health services.

The Indiana Constitution guarantees a quality public education for every Hoosier child. Public education is a human right. The systematic dismantling of public education is immoral. Hoosier children deserve a fully staffed and funded public education system, with well-paid teachers, art, music, and quality education provided.

We demand transparency and reform to charter schools and vouchers. We insist on educational funding accountability in the State House.

Indiana has not passed comprehensive environmental regulations in decades, enforcement is virtually non-existent, and accountability is insufficient. Hoosiers have seen several devastating environmental incidents. The East Chicago Lead Incident was only the beginning of water concerns across the state. Our aging infrastructure needs meaningful investment and improvement to prevent future incidents.

Hoosier children are experiencing an increase in childhood asthma. More Hoosiers are experiencing allergies, and other environmental health conditions. Our marginalized and minority communities are disproportionately affected.

We need to protect our urban green spaces, expand green space initiatives, protect our natural resources, and make an investment in the future of Hoosiers.

Climate change is real, and Hoosiers can feel it every day and see it in our seasons. Colder and harsher winters, less rain, dynamic weather shifts, more frequent dangerous weather events, and more. We need to do more to combat climate change and Indiana has the potential to make a real difference.

Indiana is a prime location for green energy initiatives. Renewable energy has been hindered by corporate interest. Individuals seeking home renewable energy options have been directly impacted by corporate interest, limiting the percentage paid for electricity production.

Renewable energy is the future. The state needs to capitalize on this opportunity.

Indiana voters deserve fair, free, and accessible elections. 20 years of Republican control has resulted in extreme partisan gerrymandering and the disenfranchisement of voters. Indiana voter rolls have experienced unfounded purges, limited access, voter suppression, voter disenfranchisement, and outdated technology. We are 50th in voter turnout. This is the result of strategic policies and legislation that have further disenfranchised, suppressed, and limited voting. Every Hoosier voter should have their vote counted.