Platform

Show transparency for industrial companies: create public cost and benefit analysis available 90 days in advance of a public meeting
- “Transparent Public Process”
Push for upstate reinvestment in retraining people in jobs lost to automation
Include tax Incentives point from labor section in this section

Expanding vocational opportunities
- Ensure funding for vocational classes in HS for all students
Tuition-free college
- Expand GradTAP
Free SUNY/CUNY
- Free CUNY benefits THROUGH mid class/ bottom 90%
  - Remove middle class from free tuition
  - Room and board assistance for lower-income students
    - Tuition-free college for at cuny and SUNY for all kids; those above below poverty line will receive Supplemental Funding of Associated Costs for Students
College application fees waived for lower income student
Advertise and fund GENIUS for SHSAT/SAT prep for lower-income students
K-12 computer classes and STEAM education
Life skills classes for financial literacy or economics

Support SUNY Nanotech
Change “clean energy economy” to “100% renewable energy economy”
Add goals of Green New Deal to climate platform without stating the name “Green New Deal”

Ending cash bail and eliminate pretrial detention beyond 3 months
Require any prosecutors to present all evidence to defense attorneys before plea deal negotiations
Require recording of all interrogations
Decriminalize and Legalize marijuana and expunge all records and ensure restorative economic
Statewide mental health and recidivism
reauthorization of 9/11 first responder Bill
Full reproductive healthcare access for all prisoners
Decriminalizing sex work
Independent prosecutors for cases of accused police misconduct

Remove pass the DREAM Act (accomplished)
Remove pass GENDA (accomplished)
Remove gay conversion therapy (accomplished)
End payday lending and other usurious lendings
Parole reform for elders
Expanding alternatives for incarceration options for low-risk parole eligible individuals
Expand conviction review unit
Prohibition on all for-profit prisons
Inclusive rehabilitation efforts – including education, visitation, and access to advocates and attorneys; the ability of family and advocates to send books clothing food and other personal items
Voting rights for felons
Remove Barriers to vote by mail including No excuse vote by mail in the NYS Constitution
Automatic voter registration
Lower voting age to 16