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Issue Position: Social Justice

Issue Position

Date: Jan. 1, 2018
Issues: Unemployed and Low-Income Civil Liberties and Civil Rights Health and Health Care Drugs Housing and Property Criminal Justice

I believe we need to fight for social justice. The one thing that I've learned through my work with fighting human trafficking is that if we wait until an issue has touched us personally before we start to work to changes things, we've waited too long. As someone who works to fight against human trafficking, I am keenly aware of how many social justice problems are interconnected. We can't talk about homelessness without talking about affordable housing. We can't talk about criminal justice reform without talking about alcohol and other drug issues. We can't talk about mental health without talking about affordable healthcare. Social justice issues are not silo issues, they are interconnected.
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