Nina Schwalbe
Affordability & cost of living
Notes 'nearly two-thirds of New Yorkers cannot reliably cover basic needs.' Would push a $20 inflation-indexed federal minimum wage, universal child care via the Child Care for Every Community Act, an expanded CTC/EITC, and paid family leave.
ninafornyc.com · Platform ↗Housing
Would create a federal Social Housing Development Authority for permanently affordable, mixed-income housing modeled on Mitchell-Lama, repeal the Faircloth Amendment and fully fund NYCHA with tenant-led oversight, and expand HUD rental assistance.
ninafornyc.com · Platform ↗Health care
Her signature lane. Legislate a single-payer system by incrementally lowering the Medicare age until everyone is covered, dramatically expand community health centers, and cut drug costs by expanding Medicare price negotiation and conditioning publicly funded research on affordable pricing.
✓ Track record — what they've actually done
Public-health scientist who led UNICEF immunization work and a $7B USAID COVID vaccine program and negotiated roughly 65% cuts to HPV-vaccine prices.
Immigration & ICE
Would 'abolish ICE and replace it with an accountable agency,' end raids and family separations, guarantee legal representation, and pass the American Dream and Promise Act.
ninafornyc.com · Platform ↗Confronting Trump & defending democracy
Enforce Congress's power of the purse against impoundments, overturn Citizens United, pass the For the People Act, and adopt ranked-choice voting.
ninafornyc.com · Platform ↗Israel & the Middle East
Among the most pro-Palestinian in the field: calls for an immediate permanent Gaza ceasefire, says 'the United Nations has documented genocide in Gaza,' backs the Block the Bombs Act, and supports 'a free sovereign Palestinian state and democratic Israel.'
ninafornyc.com · Platform ↗Money in politics & corruption
A constitutional amendment overturning Citizens United and public small-dollar matching for campaign financing.
ninafornyc.com · Platform ↗AI & technology
Would pass a Frontier AI Safety and Security Act requiring independent pre-deployment review with authority to block unsafe models, plus a GDPR-style federal privacy law.
ninafornyc.com · Platform ↗Climate & environment
Supports the Green New Deal framework, building electrification and weatherization, ending fossil-fuel subsidies, and opposing new pipelines, LNG terminals and federal drilling — plus a 'Climate and Health' agenda on extreme heat and disease.
ninafornyc.com · Platform ↗No public position yet on Public safety & guns
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