Make no mistake about it: Housing is health.

What we are seeing is really intergenerational trauma, poverty, and poor health outcomes.

In this country, our credit reports are our reputations, determining where you can live, where you can work, and how much it will cost you to finance everything from a car to a college degree. But our credit reporting system is…

I find very often we tend to stereotype and present a very shallow narrative as to who experiences homelessness or is on the precipice of experiencing it. The reality is that struggle is certainly not a character flaw, and hardship is…

My bill, the Comprehensive CREDIT Act, will greatly improve a fundamentally flawed credit reporting system, providing much-needed relief for families across the country. It works to protect consumers from unfair and misleading credit…

Letter from the American Civil Liberties Union; submitted by Rep. Pressley.

this technology is clearly biased, inaccurate, and even more dangerous when used in schools, where black and brown students are disproportionately already over-policed and disciplined at higher rates than their white peers for the same…

In my district, the Massachusetts Seventh alone, black girls are six times more likely to be suspended from school...

Letter from the BTU; submitted by Rep. Pressley.

Letter from the Massachusetts Teachers Association; submitted by Rep. Pressley.

Letter from the American Federation of Teachers, Massachusetts; submitted by Rep. Pressley.

We know that the logical end of surveillance is often over-policing and the criminalization of vulnerable and marginalized communities.