Erica Lee Carter knows the challenges that working women face. She will fight for equal work for women, against discrimination and sexual harassment, and for paid sick days so working people can better provide for their families. She will continue to make sure that federal funding flows to the 18th Congressional District for the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, prevent cuts to Head Start, and advocate increase funding for public schools. Erica Lee Carter will fight for the legacy of her late mother Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee who was a champion for criminal justice reform and juvenile justice reform. Erica is a strong supporter of bail reform and will author bills to help families of the incarcerated. And Erica will fight every day to end the epidemic of mass incarceration that unfairly targets African Americans.

Erica Lee Carter will take on the challenge to continue to lead the way to bring dollars in federal funding for education back to Texas. As a Former School Board Trustee, Erica will make sure that schools are receiving increased funding for education, protecting Head Start school readiness programs from cuts, and everything in between. Erica will committed to cutting student loan interest rates and to enabling Americans to graduate college without debt. She will fight to crack down on abusive lenders who take advantage of students. Erica will bring dollars in federal education funding back to Texas and never stopped working for good schools for our children no matter where they live and is going to fight to keep our neighborhood schools open.

Erica Lee Carter’s top priority is the creation of good-paying jobs that provide everyone the opportunity to sustain their family. When elected Congresswoman, she is going to work to expand vocational and job skill training so that our young people and the unemployed can get trained, and created multiple opportunities to connect them to good-paying jobs.

Erica Lee Carter believes all Americans should be able to afford to see a doctor. She will stand up AGAINST the Republican health care plan that would have kicked thousands of Texans off health insurance. Erica will fight to protect coverage for pre-existing conditions, expand access to affordable health care, and lower the cost of prescription drugs. She will continue to be instrumental in expanding the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) and protecting Medicare and Medicaid benefits targeted by Republicans. She will work to pass legislation to prevent deaths related to pregnancy and childbirth.