• K-12 Education

  Tate supports fully funding public schools, filling shortages of teachers and counselors, supporting restorative justice programs, adopting sex and consent education, and rejecting unfunded mandates that strain educators.

• Healthcare

  Tate believes healthcare is a human right and supports passing the New York Health Act for universal healthcare, fully funding hospitals that serve the community, and protecting access to abortions, gender-affirming care, and maternity supports.

• Housing

  Tate supports creating a Social Housing Development Authority to build hundreds of thousands of permanently affordable homes statewide, expanding Good Cause eviction protections, defending rent stabilization, passing the Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act to support tenant organizing, expanding the cease and desist zone, and adopting a tax on speculative home flipping to fight displacement.

Issues Christian is raising that aren't a shared debate across the field.

• Universal Childcare

  Tate supports providing no-cost childcare, 3K, and pre-K statewide so that every parent can provide for their family, every childcare worker earns a living wage, and every child has access to high-quality programming.

• Environmental Justice

  Tate opposes the fossil fuel lobby, supports building public power through the New York Power Authority, and demands green infrastructure and environmental remediation for the community.

• Higher Education

  Tate supports passing the REPAIR Act to force private colleges to pay their fair share and the New Deal for CUNY to make the system tuition-free.

• Labor and Union Power

  Tate supports empowering workers to join and form unions, adopting a state-level ABC test to reclassify independent contractors as employees, amending the Taylor Law to allow public employees to strike, implementing a $30 minimum wage, passing the EmPIRE Worker Protection Act, and taking the Delivery Protection Act statewide.

• Decarceration

  Tate supports decarcerating individuals who do not pose a threat to society, protecting 'raise the age' laws, abolishing forced labor in New York prisons, and enforcing the HALT Act's limits on solitary confinement.