Jarrett Clem

I will expand vocational training programs to help young people learn trades and get good-paying jobs, back new research centers and labs supporting high-tech job creation, and support the Rebuild Illinois program, which invests $45 billion in critical infrastructure, creating and supporting 540,000 jobs.

I know firsthand the importance of standing up for working families and I will be a passionate advocate for workers in Springfield. I represent labor now and will continue to fight for pensions, worker protections, and the ability to organize.

I believe children in our community deserve a world-class education. I will fight to reduce childcare costs, strengthen funding for early childhood education and local public schools, work to improve teacher pay and lower class sizes.

I trust women to make their own healthcare decisions. I will protect the right to choose in Illinois, and strengthen access to birth control, fertility treatment, and maternity care. I will stand up for working women and fight for equal pay and paid family leave.

I will stand up to big insurance and drug companies and fight to lower costs. I will fight to stop insurance companies from artificially raising their rates to boost profits, and will crack down on price-gouging on essential medicines. I strongly support capping the cost of Insulin at $35 a month.

I support eliminating the grocery tax, will fight for property tax relief, and will work to ban hidden junk fees that companies pile onto goods and services.

High property taxes are hurting families throughout our community. I will fight to reign them in by strengthening state funding for public schools and essential services to take the burden off of local taxpayers.

I am committed to sustainability in agriculture and dedicated to increasing training and information. As new technology transforms the agriculture industry, we must invest in the farmers who use it.