Cynthia (Cinde) Wirth

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Cinde believes in investing in a 21st century workforce that will create an economy that serves all Hoosiers. Wages should be adequate to ensure a basic quality of life including safe housing, and reliable access to food and other essentials. A lack of quality affordable childcare should never stand in the way of a fulfilling career.

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Everyone should be able to afford their rent and have money left over for savings. Right now in Indiana, private investors are buying up residences and jacking up rates beyond what most folks can afford. This is exploitative and needs to stop.Safe housing is a human right and no one should be living in the street, in the woods, or in their car because they can’t find affordable housing. We need to create incentives for first-time home buyers and for those looking to move into homes that meet their changing needs.

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Quality public education opens doors, creates opportunities, and improves our standards of living. That’s why Cinde is committed to supporting high-quality public schools and expanding access to higher education.

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Cinde is a teacher and a mother. She has seen the fear in children’s eyes from inside her locked down classroom during lockdown drills and in the aftermath of nearby mass shootings.Cinde supports common-sense gun laws that are necessary to keep our children, schools, and neighborhoods safe, the kinds of ideals that most logical gun owners agree and support. Cinde grew up shooting hunting rifles with her brother and grandfather; she has practiced target and skeet shooting. But these experiences do not change her immovable position that guns should be well-regulated, firearm background checks expanded, and gun-safety programs also expanded.

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People make the best decisions about their own healthcare. We need to invest in a single-payer healthcare system and community health centers that serve all people, especially our most at-risk groups, in both urban and rural areas.

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Cinde supports practical ways to lower healthcare costs and improve access to care for every Hoosier community, including crafting a single-payer healthcare system. We need to invest in community health centers and provide incentives for patients, health practitioners, and doctors to promote routine preventative care. Cinde favors restoring quality, local community healthcare options, reducing costs by making premiums more affordable, and reducing out-of-pocket expenses. She’ll also work to cap prescription drug costs while maintaining protections for those with preexisting conditions and prohibiting lifetime coverage caps.These protections are especially important for LGBTQIA+ persons and those seeking reproductive and pregnancy care. Legislators have no place in the exam room, and we must trust people to make those decisions for themselves. Cinde will fight to protect and safeguard healthcare freedoms – for every Hoosier.

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We must take action immediately to ensure the Earth is hospitable for future generations. We need to invest in clean forms of energy and renewable resources. That means saying “no” to data centers and the corporations that use unethical tactics to cover up the extreme amounts of fossil fuels, water, and electricity gobbled up by their proposals.

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We need to create an economy that works for all Hoosiers.Indiana ranks 45th in labor supply. No matter how low taxes are, businesses won’t move to Indiana or expand if they lack a supply of workers with the right skills. Cinde supports ensuring Indiana has the appropriately paid 21st-century workforce we need to lead us toward a more prosperous future.No one who works 40 hours a week should be facing poverty, living without safe housing, or struggling to meet basic needs. Cinde will work to raise the minimum wage so that Hoosiers have a better quality of life.

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We need to recognize teaching as the profession it is and ensure teachers have the classroom resources they need to best prepare their students. Congress must support public education by enhancing previous funding formulas and supporting the needs of teachers and students. We must support teachers by encouraging educational best practices and focusing on what’s best for students. By doing so, we can re-build our world-class education system in communities of every size.

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Cinde believes in Medicare for all. She supports preserving Social Security and Medicare for the generations to come. Healthy aging and the ability to age in the place one chooses is critical to healthy communities.

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Ensuring parents have reliable, affordable childcare is an economic issue. Right now, parents in Indiana are spending thousands of dollars annually on daycare so they can work for meager wages. Through subsidies and federal investments, we can create the universal, educational childcare programs that working families need.

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Our children deserve equitable access to learning from the earliest age. We need to support our professional teacher workforce and ensure our neighborhood preK-12 schools are a safe and welcoming place for students of all backgrounds and abilities.

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Cinde is committed to ensuring those who have served our nation receive the highest quality healthcare possible. Our Veterans give of themselves and it is our duty to ensure they have access to the care they need when they need care.

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Working-class Hoosiers should be thriving, not just surviving. We need good-paying jobs, affordable housing, affordable childcare, and equal access to benefits like sick time and paid family leave.

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Cinde supports legalizing medical cannabis and decriminalizing the possession of cannabis. She has spoken out in support of ending the federal ban on cannabis and cannabis products.Indiana needs to join surrounding states to work with law enforcement agencies, health care groups, and other stakeholders so that ​Hoosier patients with medical conditions can legally access cannabis and hemp products as alternatives to highly addictive opiates.

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When it comes to our families, health and wellbeing should never be a commodity traded to make profit for the wealthy. No person should ever fear seeking medical treatment because of job loss, an inability to pay, or concerns of discrimination. GoFundMe pages and medical driven bankruptcy are not healthcare solutions.