My Life & Family
The things that decide whether a family in America can build a secure life — healthcare, housing, schools, wages, infrastructure, food, and the veterans who served.
The things that matter most in everyday life have become unaffordable or precarious for tens of millions of Americans. Medical debt is the number one cause of personal bankruptcy. Rent eats 49% of income for half of all renters. Teacher pay sits 27% below comparable professions. Nine of eighteen ASCE infrastructure categories are still rated in the D range. 47.9 million Americans live in food-insecure households. 17.5 veterans die by suicide every day. The promise that hard work builds a secure life has become conditional on the zip code you were born in.
Treat the essentials like shared national infrastructure, not commodities the market rations. A public healthcare option built on expanded Medicare. A National Housing Corporation to build millions of affordable units. A $60,000 federal minimum teacher salary. Wages indexed to productivity. Bipartisan infrastructure buildout extended another decade. Universal school meals and fresh-food access. A VA that meets every commitment without a fight. No single program fixes everything — the policies reinforce each other.
A family working full-time can afford the community they live in. A diagnosis doesn't mean bankruptcy. A kid's zip code doesn't decide their future. A veteran gets care without fighting for it. The middle-class life isn't a memory — it's the floor everyone stands on.
Healthcare
You keep your doctor. You keep your hospital. The only thing that changes is who pays the bill. Medical debt is the #1 cause of personal bankruptcy — our plan ends it while covering every American.
Housing
Housing costs have doubled in a generation. We're going to build the homes America needs and protect renters from predatory landlords.
Education & Student Debt
Every child deserves a great public school, and no one should spend 20 years repaying a degree.
Labor & Minimum Wage
Worker productivity rose 92% since 1979. Pay rose 34%. The difference went to shareholders — not to paychecks.
Infrastructure
Nine of eighteen ASCE categories still in the D range. Poor infrastructure costs every American household $2,700 per year. Build it right. Build it fast.
Food & Agriculture
The US produces more food than it consumes on more arable land than any country — yet 47.9 million Americans live in food-insecure households. This is a policy choice.
Veterans Affairs
6,398 veterans died by suicide in 2023 — 17.5 every day. 61% were not receiving VA care. The government asked them to serve. That promise is binding.
Education Reform
American kids take 112 standardized tests K–12. Finland gives one. Our school calendar is a relic of 19th-century farming. We rebuild around how children actually learn.
Childcare
Childcare costs $13,128/year per child — more than college tuition in 33 states. 51% of Americans live in a childcare desert. 2 million women left the workforce during COVID. Sweden caps childcare at 1–3% of income.
Mental Health
160 million Americans live in a mental health shortage area. The average delay from symptoms to treatment is 11 years. Insurers deny mental health claims at 2–10× the rate of medical claims. Parity was signed into law in 2008. It has never been enforced.
Elder Care & Aging
10,000 Americans turn 65 every day. A nursing home costs $108,405/year. Medicare covers zero custodial long-term care. 53 million Americans serve as unpaid family caregivers. Japan solved this 25 years ago.
Homelessness
653,104 people were homeless on a single night in 2023 — a record. It costs $35,578/year per person in emergency services. Permanent supportive housing costs $12,800. Finland is the only country that reduced homelessness. They used Housing First. It worked.
Rural America
180+ rural hospitals have closed since 2005 and 700+ more are at risk. 21% of rural Americans lack broadband. Rural counties lost 2.3 million people in a decade. The communities that feed and power the nation are being left to die.
Water Policy
9.2 million lead service lines still poisoning children. 200 million Americans exposed to PFAS. The Colorado River at 25% of historical flow. 2 million Americans lack clean running water. Water is life — and America's water infrastructure is failing.