The cost of child care is out of control. The average family in Massachusetts pays over $44,000 a year. That’s nearly half of a typical family’s household income, and it’s simply untenable for single parents. Yet, child care is also critical for our state’s economy — if parents can’t find affordable child care, they can’t work.

We are drowning under the weight of child care, and it’s time Beacon Hill stepped up. 

I believe this crisis demands a multi-pronged approach to bring down costs. First, I support universal preschool and pre-K for every 3, 4, and 5 year old in the state. It’s good for parents, it’s good for providers, and it’s good for our kids — research shows that kids who attend pre-K do better in grade school.

Second, I support expanding the state’s Child Tax Credit to $2,000. The current credit only offers $440 to parents — just 1% of what the typical family pays for child care (not to mention all the other costs of parenthood). Quite frankly, the current tax credit is an insult to parents. 

Finally, I believe we should tap into Massachusetts’ innovation economy to create incentives for employers to create their own on-site childcare options.

Utility and energy bills are going through the roof. Across the Commonwealth, folks are reporting increases of 25-50% from just last winter. That means people who paid $400 a month to heat their homes in 2024 are paying $600 per month now. And it’s still going up.

What’s Beacon Hill’s response? They just cut funding for Mass Save, a program that is explicitly designed to help everyday people like you lower their utility bills through energy efficiency updates. This ranges from big projects like replacing your furnace, to smaller jobs like simply putting a wind blocker under your door.

Beacon Hill wants to pretend that this was a cost cutting move. Quite the opposite: for every dollar we invest in Mass Save, we generate $3.40 in benefits. Only a fool would invest less in a program with those returns. 

I support fully funding Mass Save so homeowners and renters can finally find some relief on their energy and utility bills.

I have a very simple view of health care: it’s a human right!

Massachusetts has the very best health care in the country, possibly even the world, but as many families know all too well, quality care does not mean affordable care. MassHealth was a groundbreaking step forward that served as a model for the Affordable Care Act and it’s time Massachusetts took the next step forward.

Your medical options should be dictated by need, not the profit margins of a billion dollar mega corporation. I will co-sponsor a “Medicare-For-All” type bill to guarantee health care for every Bay Stater and end the profit-hungry “health” industry in Massachusetts — because when your kid is sick, you shouldn’t have to choose between a doctor and groceries.

Under the Healey administration, the MBTA has made strides towards improvement, but ridership still hasn’t returned to pre-COVID numbers. My wife and I both use the T nearly every day, and it’s plain to see why people haven’t returned — folks don’t trust the T to get them where they need to go, when they need to be there.

For the MBTA to be successful, it needs to be safe, fast, and reliable. It needs to be better.

I will work tirelessly to push for an MBTA system that works for everyone — a system that you can trust every single day to safely get you to work on time.

To get there, we need to cut headways down to 3 minutes, and urgently finish updating the tracks and signals so our trains can safely operate at full speed. We also need to ensure that every MBTA stop is fully accessible for people with disabilities. 

I also support electrifying the Commuter Rail. Electric rail is simply faster, quieter, less costly to maintain, and keeps our air clean to breathe.

The people of Massachusetts overwhelmingly made their voice clear: they want an audit of the legislature. And quite frankly, it’s an outrage that years later, it still hasn’t happened yet.

Beacon Hill is the least transparent legislature in the entire country — that leads to corruption, misuse of public funds, and a government that does what they want, not what the people demand. Perhaps worst of all, it erodes the public’s trust and faith in our institutions. And when we lose faith in our government, we lose faith in core values like democracy.

So, to put it bluntly: I support the immediate audit of Beacon Hill. It’s time we brought transparency and trust back to Beacon Hill.