Preserve the American Dream

By investing in and prioritizing good-paying jobs, safe neighborhoods, sound education, and affordable healthcare, America will have a powerful engine for obtaining a promising future for those who want to share the American dream.

The American dream of owning a home, having a stable job, and obtaining a sound education, is alive today. However, the dream is under stress, which our policymakers must address at the federal, state, and local levels before the dream perishes.

Fighting for good-paying jobs in Florida and an economy that works for everyone is a top priority. Having champions for small and large businesses, fair wages, good benefits for workers from all walks of life, skills training, and more manufacturing jobs is a must-do.

To help improve opportunities for Floridians, I will focus on the following initiatives that are of importance to our state:

• Being an unwavering advocate for small and large businesses and higher-paying wages for workers who can help those businesses flourish.

• Insisting that women get equal pay for equal work.

• De-regulating and over-regulated society.

• Ensuring higher paying jobs for K-12 teachers and community first responders.

• Making sure that businesses have trained workers through more federal investments in the trades and cost-reduced or free community college education, which are needed for finding good-paying jobs and generating higher tax revenues from better-paying jobs for federal and state coffers. Children from low- and middle-income families should not be burdened with thousands of dollars in debt to get a college degree.

• Encouraging high technology-anchored manufacturing jobs and infrastructure repairs and expansion that will also create thousands of Florida jobs.

• Strongly opposing cuts to Social Security and Medicare to ensure a secure retirement for every Floridian.

• Providing paid family leave for new parents, daycare for two wage earner households, and caring for sick immediate family members.

• Lowering the cost of childcare and universal pre-K regardless of one’s zip code provides a good start on their education and grants parents much-needed and -deserved relief for childcare, which is often too expensive for households to receive.

• Helping grow our energy industry by advancing solar and wind energy technologies, some of which have been pioneered in Florida.

• Expanding investment in high-speed internet in rural as well as suburban and urban neighborhoods so that every community in the state of Florida has access to information, business and education opportunities, and national and global markets.

• Supporting President Biden’s proposed $10,000 tax credit for new homeowners to offset the high price of mortgages.

• Continuing to invest in law enforcement so that our neighborhoods remain safe and secure for the families who reside in those communities, regardless of location.