Charles Booker
Progressive
Democrat
N/A
Kentucky
Current Position: Former State House Representative KY-43
Running For: Senator
Policy Positions
Economic Policy
- For wealth tax and equalizing tax rates for capital gains to eliminate corporate tax loopholes
- For universal basic income
- For universal childcare
- For federal rent stabilization and tenant protections including just-cause eviction rights
- For reparations as restorative economics
Business & Labor
- For minimum wage of $45,000/year and guaranteed 40 hours of paid sick leave for 40-hour work week
- For moratorium on building data centers until AI regulations are in place to protect workers and environment
- For creating Human Labor Protection Bureau to enforce worker protections against AI displacement
- For expanding unionization and collective bargaining rights
Health Care
- For Medicare for All healthcare system
Education
- For canceling student debt and making public colleges tuition-free
Civil Rights
- For reproductive freedom and abortion access regardless of income
- For repealing the Hyde amendment
- For federal LGBTQ anti-discrimination protections
Voting Rights & Democracy
- For organizing a general strike against authoritarianism and to restore democracy
Immigration & Foreign Affairs
- Against U.S. funding of Israeli military actions in Gaza, which he considers genocide
- For free Palestine and release of all hostages