Connie Chan understands that the affordability crisis is driven by both skyrocketing costs and shrinking opportunities for working people. For the past 40 years, productivity has gone up, but real wages have been stagnant for most workers. Small businesses have been squeezed by ever larger corporations. And in recent years, costs have gone through the roof, making it more difficult for all but the very wealthiest Americans to get by. 

Connie is committed to addressing both sides of the affordability crisis: costs and earnings. 

Connie will work to build housing working people and families can afford, protect the Affordable Care Act and expand Medicaid to bring down health premiums, and lower utility and energy costs for all by expanding our green infrastructure. San Francisco has been a leader in addressing child care costs but with federal support, we can do more - she will work to pass legislation that brings down the cost of child care while ensuring early child care educators earn a living wage.

At the same time, Connie will support investments in manufacturing and construction to support middle income job creation and sectoral diversification, push for funding for career technical education to expand high-paying options for workers, and work in solidarity with organized labor to raise the national minimum wage and secure fair wages for all workers – in the United States and our major trading partners. 

She’ll also work to ensure that the benefits of technological progress are broadly shared by all. Connie will ensure that our public K-12 schools are fully resourced; restore and redouble national investment in our research universities and the innovations they drive; and stand up for sensible oversight of fair, competitive, and innovative financial markets.

Finally, Connie will fight Donald Trump’s ridiculous and costly tariff policies which are hurting American workers and small businesses while pushing prices even higher for working families.