Prosperity for All: An Economic Bill of Rights
Ordinary Granite Staters are struggling with the rising costs of healthcare, housing, and education. These essentials should never be out of reach. We need effective leaders who will stand up for working people and fight to make life more affordable, not more difficult. Heath has a proven record of delivering on these priorities in Concord, and it’s time we start trusting new voices to lead the way in Congress.
Healthcare for All:
No one should be forced into bankruptcy simply because they became ill or were injured. Healthcare is a basic right, protected by international humanitarian law. Medicare-for-All would safeguard public health while lowering expenses for the average American. Every other developed nation has already adopted some form of universal healthcare, and it's time we do the same. Expanding access to care will also require more healthcare professionals, which we can support by increasing the number of residency positions while investing in medical training, including through tuition-free public universities.
Education for All:
Access to education whether through a university, community college, or trade school should not depend on your zip code or income. Tuition costs in New Hampshire are out of control and among the highest in the nation. This is an unfair burden on working and middle-class families who are simply trying to build a better future. Making public education tuition-free opens doors for more Americans and delivers long-term economic gains for the country. We must also expand access to trade schools and fully fund programs like Job Corps to ensure we’re preparing the next generation of workers across all industries, not just those requiring a four-year degree. These pathways are critical to our economy and deserve the same level of investment.
Housing for All:
Every family deserves an affordable place to call home. But in New Hampshire, skyrocketing housing costs are pricing out all but the wealthiest Granite Staters, including everyone from young families trying to buy their first home to seniors on fixed incomes. We need to build more housing across the spectrum, including affordable rentals, workforce housing, and starter homes. We also need to level the playing field. Right now, private equity firms are buying up single-family homes in bulk, making it harder for everyday people to compete in the market. That’s not fair, and it’s not sustainable. We must put limits on corporate ownership of residential housing and crack down on price-fixing schemes that inflate costs for renters and homebuyers alike.
Living Wage For All:
No one who works full-time should struggle to make ends meet. Yet for decades, the federal minimum wage has failed to keep pace with rising costs and worker productivity, forcing Americans to work longer hours for less. Adjusting for inflation and economic growth, a $25 minimum wage is a fair and necessary baseline to ensure dignity and stability for all workers.
PRIORITIES
Our key priorities for building worker power and advancing economic justice.
DEFEND UNION RIGHTS
Having grown up in a union household, Heath knows firsthand that unions are the foundation of America's economy, uplifting workers and securing vital protections. However, federal laws have severely restricted their ability to organize, and these barriers must be dismantled. We must repeal the Taft-Hartley Act, which allows states to impose anti-union restrictions like so-called 'right-to-work' laws.
We also need to protect all workers’ rights to strike and form a union, make it easier for workers to join unions, and invest in the National Labor Relations Board.
UPLIFT FAMILIES
No family should have to choose between paying bills and caring for their loved ones, yet skyrocketing childcare costs and stagnant wages are pushing millions to the brink. We need real solutions: Universal Paid Family Leave so no worker risks their job to care for a newborn or sick relative, and a strengthened Child Tax Credit to put money back in parents’ pockets. These are vital investments in America’s families and our nation’s future.
EXPAND SOCIAL SECURITY
Social Security stands as one of America’s most vital and successful programs—a lifeline that has kept generations of seniors and people with disabilities from falling into poverty. Yet for decades, it has faced relentless attacks from conservative politicians who prioritize tax cuts for the wealthy over economic security for working people. We must not only protect Social Security but expand it by bolstering benefits to meet the rising cost of living and ensuring long-term solvency through fair taxation. That means lifting the payroll tax cap so that the wealthy pay their fair share, guaranteeing this essential program remains strong for generations to come.
PROTECT OUR DEMOCRACY
Our democracy has been crumbling for decades. Citizens United didn't just open the floodgates to corporate cash in politics, it also drowned out the voices of everyday Americans. Today, our nation isn't governed by 'we the people,' but by the billionaire class. We must overturn this disastrous ruling with a Constitutional amendment to reclaim our elections from billionaires and special interests because democracy shouldn't be for sale. Moreover, we must remove the limit on the number of Representatives in the U.S. House to ensure a much larger, truly representative body for the third most populous nation on Earth, implement ranked-choice voting, prosecute illegal foreign influence groups such as AIPAC, ban members of Congress from becoming lobbyists upon leaving office, and abolish the electoral college.
PROTECT OUR ENVIRONMENT
New Hampshire’s economy and way of life rely on our natural resources: from skiing and outdoor tourism to our coastal communities. But rising sea levels, flooding, and environmental contamination threaten our health and economy.
As Granite Staters, we have a deep connection to our state’s natural environment. Our forests, mountains, lakes, and coastline not only shape our way of life, but they drive our economy forward. We must commit ourselves to advancing clean energy policy, enhancing coastal infrastructure to address the impacts of climate change, and supporting communities impacted by environmental contamination. Heath will fight to hold polluters accountable and provide resources like health monitoring for affected Granite Staters.
BODILY AUTONOMY AND LGBTQ+ RIGHTS
Every person deserves the right to make their own decisions about their body and their future, without interference from politicians. I believe reproductive healthcare, including access to abortion, is a fundamental right. In the legislature, I’ve fought to protect and expand access to reproductive healthcare, because no one should have to cross state lines or face barriers to get the care they need. I’m proud to have a 100% voting record with Planned Parenthood and to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with advocates defending reproductive freedom. In Congress, I’ll continue that fight: working to codify Roe v. Wade into federal law, expand access to contraception, and protect the privacy and dignity of every person making personal healthcare decisions. This also includes protecting access to life saving medicines associated with HRT, and fighting for adequate funding for LGBTQ+ healthcare studies. Every single American, no matter who they are, deserves basic dignity and respect. I’ll put an end to the state-sanctioned harassment and oppression being aimed at the LGBTQ+ community.
NO MORE FOREVER WARS
The first of the United Nations' seventeen sustainable development goals is the eradication of poverty — and the second, the eradication of hunger. Yet, for decades, American foreign policy has largely served to inhibit these goals for the people of the Global South. Ordinary Americans, living in a nation with one of the highest rates of homelessness in the world, scarcely benefit from our nation's status as an imperial superpower. Our government should lead the world to these eradications of poverty and hunger, not subsidize another nation's genocidal foreign policy.
It is essential that we immediately cease our involvement in these endless imperial wars and adopt non-interventionism as a general policy. Moreover, we must immediately end all military aid and weapons sales to both Israel and Saudi Arabia and impose a complete arms, technological, and cultural embargo on Israel. We must at the same time restore funding to USAID, lift the medieval, Cold War-era blockade of Cuba, and ensure the security of Ukraine and our other allies in Europe threatened by Vladimir Putin's imperial war. We must also work to restore and improve our relationship with China and work with them, not against them, to make technological, political, and societal progress — and above all, we must honor our commitments to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Charter of the United Nations.
SENSIBLE IMMIGRATION
Donald Trump's racist obsession with harsh border enforcement has lead to barbaric violence by state actors: taking human lives, destroying families, embarrassing our nation, and risking the future of the asset that made the United States the richest nation in the history of the world: immigration. The goal of sensible immigration policy should be to facilitate immigration, emigration, commerce, education, tourism, and asylum for all who desire, not needlessly restrict them to those born lucky. To this end, it is imperative that U.S. immigration policy be radically overhauled. We must abolish ICE and Border Patrol in their entireties and replace them with a reestablished United States Immigration and Naturalization Service in order to massively simplify our unnecessarily complicated and drawn-out immigration and visa schemes, and pursue membership in international customs blocs to simplify the enjoyment of life for all.
SUPPORT SMALL BUSINESSES
When Republicans say that we live in a “welfare state” they are technically correct but it isn’t the individual, it’s the corporation. We need to tax large corporations accordingly and transfer their benefits to the people and actual small businesses. Mom and pop shops shouldn’t be taxed more than giant box stores, their tax breaks and subsidies should be transferred to these small businesses.
BILLIONAIRES SHOULDN'T EXIST
When Republicans say that we live in a “welfare state” they are technically correct, but it isn’t for the working class, it’s for the wealthy elite. We’re living through a Second Gilded Age, a moment in history where corporations and the 1% get preferential treatment, and the working class is left behind. How do we solve this issue? We go after the billionaires, and the corrupt politicians that work for them. We tax the large corporations accordingly, and transfer their benefits to the people and actual small businesses. Mom and pop shops shouldn’t be taxed more than giant box stores, and we can’t allow greedy companies like Walmart and Amazon to destroy Main Street. Major corporations don’t need tax breaks and subsidies. We should transfer those benefits to small businesses that will help us revitalize our local economies.