Economic Growth
Unemployment is our real deficit. Unemployment is not only the moral crisis of our time — leaving families homeless and dreams destroyed — but also an underlying cause of our federal government's increased levels of borrowing. Massive job losses following the 2008 financial crisis left us with fewer tax receipts and more people requiring benefits.
There's ultimately only one responsible way to reduce the federal deficit: Get everyone trained, working, and contributing to the tax base.
This is why Congresswoman Wilson sponsored the Jobs Now Act to provide funding directly to local governments to train and hire millions of Americans to do crucial work in our communities.
This is why economists, activists, and everyday citizens have called out for targeted spending to proactively protect our cities from the impacts of natural disasters, to educate our young children to one day compete in the global economy, and to undertake research to maintain our edge in medical and communications technologies.
Congresswoman Wilson is serving in Congress first and foremost to address the issue on each and every American's mind: Jobs, Jobs, Jobs.
Workforce Protections
The U.S. labor force is a pillar of our nation’s strength. Congresswoman Wilson believes that we must protect and advance the rights, protections, and benefits our labor force needs to work with dignity and create better lives for themselves and their families.
As the former chair of the Subcommittee Higher Education and Workforce Investment, Congresswoman Wilson has been an outspoken advocate for expanded labor rights and worker protections. This includes workers’ rights to unionize and bargain for higher wages, better benefits and safer workplaces. That is why Congresswoman Wilson co-sponsored the Protect America’s Workforce Act and the Richard L. Tumla Protecting the Right to organize Act of 2025. She firmly believes that power lies with the people and restricting the workforce’s rights to come together and push for their own protection is extremely anti-democratic and does not reflect the values that this great nation was founded upon.
Fair pay is a pillar of workforce protections that we must continually ensure. Everyday living is becoming more and more expensive, and wages must reflect these higher costs of living to ensure that American people are able to do more than just “make ends meet.” Congresswoman Wilson co-sponsored the Raise the Wage Act to gradually raise the federal minimum wage to $17 by 2030 to address this. Raising the minimum wage will guarantee that our citizens can afford the higher costs of living and families aren’t struggling with rent/mortgage payments, grocery bills, gas and other necessities. Congresswoman Wilson will continue to protect American laborers and all that they do to support America’s booming economy.
Science, Space, and Technology
Congresswoman Wilson is working to ensure our nation maintains its competitive edge in technology, advocating to increase diversity in fields including scientific research and engineering, and fighting to bring high-paying aerospace and technology jobs to Florida.
Our nation's sophisticated science and technology programs have provided the foundation of our economic strength. But we cannot take this for granted. Over the last decade, the U.S. lost nearly 6 million manufacturing jobs and closed down at least 40,000 industrial facilities.
This has terrible consequences for our living standards. We need to keep up investments in programs to advance our understanding of medicine, alternative energy, ecosystems, and engineering. The CHIPS and Science Act was a historic, bipartisan piece of legislation that the Congresswoman Wilson helped pass in 2022. It boosted the manufacturing of semiconductors within the US to reduce reliance on foreign supply chains and foster innovation in microchip technology. This bill also facilitated the enhancement of scientific research and innovation in the United States to certify that we remain at the forefront of technological development and modernization.
Congresswoman Wilson is proud to work with our partners in the education sector—including Miami-Dade College and Florida International University—to ensure that Florida is leading the way on scientific research. The only way our nation can overcome and restore its economic promise is through learning and innovation. As a lifelong educator, Congresswoman Wilson is committed to ensuring we are successful in these pursuits.
Every American deserves economic security in retirement or disability. Since the 1930s, this has been a national promise. Social Security has, since that time, kept tens of millions of people out of poverty and saved countless lives.
As a Member of Congress, Congresswoman Wilson is deeply committed to protecting Social Security. This means she will vote against any measure to privatize the program, cut benefits, or increase the eligibility age. As a core commitment, Congresswoman Wilson believes Social Security recipients should be entitled to maintain their purchasing power. This is why she strongly believes we must maintain the current system of adjusting to account for changes in the cost of living.
While many politicians have argued that we must overhaul or even eliminate Social Security to cope with the Baby Boomer generation reaching retirement, Congresswoman Wilson rejects this argument. Without any cost-savings, leading economists estimate Social Security will be fully solvent for at least the next 25 years. She pledges to find new ways to strengthen Social Security and extend its solvency without placing an undue burden on the backs of deserving recipients.