• Affordability

  Eli Northrup supports a bold affordability agenda including universal childcare, the New York Health Act for universal healthcare, housing as a human right, lowering grocery costs via the Consumer Grocery Pricing Fairness Act, expanding Fair Fares transit affordability, and raising taxes on corporations and the wealthiest 1% through the Invest in Our New York package.

• Infrastructure & Environmental Justice

  Eli Northrup supports defending the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA), increasing investment in the Environmental Protection Fund, green schools, a moratorium on new data centers, transitioning to renewable energy (offshore wind, grid expansion), the NY HEAT Act, a statewide cap and invest program, expanding solar access, opposing new fossil fuel infrastructure, opposing nuclear expansion, cracking down on Con Edison rate hikes, supporting a public utilities authority pilot, making public spaces climate-resilient, improving MTA investment and accountability, ensuring transit accessibility, defending congestion pricing, supporting fast and free buses, universal daylighting, and protected bus and bike lanes.

• Education & Schools

  Eli Northrup supports fixing the Foundation Aid Formula, opposing unchecked charter school growth, expanding community schools, guaranteeing access to free public education regardless of immigration status, green schools, expanding anti-hate and culturally responsive curricula, fair contracts for teachers (including Fix Tier 6), addressing chronic absenteeism, the New Deal for CUNY (tuition-free CUNY, increased operating aid for SUNY/CUNY/community colleges), protecting academic workers' right to organize, and championing the Universal Child Care Act and increased childcare workforce investment.

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

• Defending State Resources & Rights

  Eli Northrup supports the RECOURSE Act to withhold payments to the federal government if funds are unlawfully blocked, the New York Civil Rights Act to ensure a legal right of action for rights violations, fighting federal threats to SNAP, healthcare, and other benefits (including the SNAP for All Act), and ensuring fair and equal representation through accurate census counts and a dedicated Office of Census Counts.

• Lowering Grocery Costs

  Eli Northrup supports the Consumer Grocery Pricing Fairness Act to prevent price gouging and discriminatory pricing practices for smaller grocers, aiming to lower food costs.

• Higher Education

  Eli Northrup supports the New Deal for CUNY, making CUNY tuition free, increasing baseline operating aid for SUNY, CUNY, and community colleges, expanding student supports (mental health counseling, food access, academic advising), and protecting academic workers' right to organize and bargain collectively.

• Reproductive Rights

  Eli Northrup supports guaranteeing public funding for abortion care for all New Yorkers regardless of income or immigration status, requiring all insurers to cover abortion care, supporting patients traveling from states with abortion bans through stronger shield laws, and expanding abortion provider training and doula/midwife programs.

• Transit Affordability & Safety

  Eli Northrup supports expanding Fair Fares eligibility and automatic enrollment, increasing public outreach about Fair Fares, defending congestion pricing, supporting fast and free buses with protected bus lanes and all-door boarding, universal daylighting, and protected bike lanes.