Alma S. Adams

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Alma Adams’ support for women’s reproductive rights is widely known throughout the district, the state, and nationally. She has been clear in all of her comments that women should make the choice about their bodies and that a woman cannot call herself free if she does not own and control her own body.

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Alma Adams will always stand up and fight for our public schools. She knows a good public education is an American value, and she will work to provide a good public education for everyone.

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Everyone should have access to affordable, quality health care. The Affordable Care Act has moved us further in that direction. Alma Adams supports prohibiting insurance companies from denying coverage for preexisting conditions. She also supports allowing children to remain on their parent’s insurance policy until the age of 26. The focus on preventive care services is vital to improving our health as well as lowering medical bills. Alma encourages routine check-ups, and she supports a no-copay policy for regular preventative care services. Preventative care for women is certainly important to Alma. She supports increasing access to women’s health clinics to provide mammograms, cervical screenings, other preventative services, and family planning. She successfully pushed to include the Momnibus (H.R. 959 / S.346) in President Biden’s Build Back Better Act which will now provide more than $1.1 billion to address the maternal health crisis.

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Creating and retaining good-paying jobs should be the primary focus in Congress. There are things we need to do in order to strengthen and protect the middle class right here in North Carolina.

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In Congress, Alma Adams will be an outspoken advocate for protecting and funding Social Security and Medicare.

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We must do more for civil rights pertaining to all minorities, women, and the LGBT community. Alma is a co-sponsor of the Equality Act in Congress.

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As Chair of the Workforce Protections Subcommittee, Alma Adams’s number one focus is to expand benefits for our workers. The top priority must be expanding and strengthening our paid family leave laws in this country. Currently, the U.S. ranks near the bottom of industrialized nations in terms of its family leave, and even the laws we do have on the books are not enough to keep many people from falling through the cracks.

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Adams opposes any school voucher program. She will always fight for public schools to get the funding they need and deserve so everyone can have access to quality education.

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Health insurance needs to be affordable and available for everyone. That’s why Alma supports government discounts for insurance based upon income. She also supports tax incentives for small businesses that provide coverage for their employees, and she fought to close the Medicaid coverage gap, which would provide more than 212,000 North Carolinians access to healthcare.

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We must invest in public education and job training programs so businesses can hire a skilled workforce.

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Alma will also work to increase the availability of affordable child care services. She will always ensure American workers are given a fair chance to succeed in today’s economy. She is a strong proponent of raising the minimum wage and indexing it to inflation so that people who work for a living are less likely to live in poverty.

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Alma understands the challenges facing public education as well as anyone. She knows it is getting harder and harder for students to afford to attend colleges and universities. In Congress, Alma will work to increase student supports, such as Pell Grants, and the reduction in the interest rate on student loans. She also will continue fighting to cancel debt for past and current students who are struggling to pay off their loans. Specifically, she has introduced a resolution with Leader Chuck Schumer, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, and Rep. Ayanna Pressley calling on the President to forgive $50,000 in student loan debt for every American.

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Small businesses and the middle class are the backbones of our economy. They need the resources to compete. We need to give small businesses tax cuts so they can create jobs. They also need easier access to capital so they can expand their businesses and invest in people.

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Specifically, Congress needs to rework Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 so that Section 5 (still existing) can be applicable. Section 4 sets out the criteria that is necessary for the Voting Rights Act to be implemented; changes have occurred in voting patterns since the act was implemented so the criteria need to be revisited and reworked.

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Alma has always been a strong advocate for the middle class. A strong middle class means a stronger American economy. She supports giving more tax cuts to the middle class and raising the minimum wage – indexing it to the rate of inflation. By putting more money in the hands of hard-working Americans, companies can sell more products, appliances, cars, and other items that will continue to spur our economic growth.

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Every day, people of color and immigrants, and other members of marginalized communities experience discrimination, intimidation, harassment, and violence. Hate, both speech and crimes, endures in America. This reflects a dangerous rise in white supremacist terrorism that threatens all of us. Congress can and must play a role to address the increase in hate crimes. Alma voted for the Emmitt Till Anti-lynching Act and she will support efforts to oversee the Department of Justice (DOJ), ensuring that they’re enforcing federal hate crime laws and aggressively prosecuting white supremacist violence. We can allocate more resources to state and local law enforcement agencies to accurately track and report hate crimes, and we can continue to speak out against hateful, racist rhetoric and actions.

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One of the ways Alma hopes to reinstate the Voting Rights Act, end voter suppression, and expand opportunities for all Americans is by supporting and passing the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. [H.R.4]. The Act assures that the right of citizens to vote is not denied or abridged on account of race, color, or membership in a language minority group as a result of the implementation of certain qualifications or prerequisites to voting, or standards, practices, or procedures with respect to voting. This includes making sure that voting materials are available in a multitude of languages.

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For Congresswoman Alma Adams, there are four necessities that all people require to live a quality life – affordable and accessible healthcare, access to healthy and nutritious food, fair and affordable housing, and a quality, first-class education. These essentials, which Alma calls “the 4H’s”, should not be political issues; they should be rights guaranteed to all people. She believes this because she knows personally how hard it is to survive without them.

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I will always fight for a woman’s right to choose and the right to privacy. Reproductive issues are health care issues, and they should be kept private between a woman and her doctor. Despite all our progress, women are still fighting for equal health care, equal pay, equal representation, equal respect, and equal rights.

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Martin Luther King, Jr., said, “of all the forms of inequality, injustice in healthcare is the most shocking and inhumane.” The United States has the worst maternal health outcomes, including mortality and morbidity, out of all other developed nations. Black women are three to four times more likely to die from a pregnancy-related complication compared to white women. That’s why I co-founded the Black Maternal Health Caucus and why I’m fighting for the Momnibus, a package of 14 bills focused on improving maternal health outcomes and closing the disparity gap. My Stillbirth Prevention Act became law this year which will expand funding for research and prevention and I’m working to pass the Endometriosis Care Act.

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When the Supreme Court struck down Roe, it took reproductive health care decisions from women. I will continue to fight to ensure women’s rights are restored and protected.

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I continue to support a single-payer health care system and an expansion to tax credits to help citizens afford health insurance and have fought for several decades to ensure North Carolina expansion of Medicaid that was finally expanded in 2024. I believe health care is a basic human right that should be accessible and affordable for all our citizens.

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I will continue to support legislation that would provide paid family and medical leave benefits, making it easier for women who want to work and need to work to support her family or pursue her education is able to do so.

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As a Stakeholder Representative for North Carolina’s 12th district, I want to make sure Charlotte’s students have every opportunity to succeed — from strong public schools to affordable colleges, to the federal support our families rely on. I’ll continue to stand up for student aid, for HBCUs, and for an education system that leaves no child behind.