Life in NY-12 Now

Today I'm raising two children in District 12 public schools. You'll often find me walking through the neighborhood, spending time in Central Park with my family, talking with neighbors, or supporting local community organizations.

Wilneida NY-12 — About Wilneida

Wilneida Negron is raising two children who attend public schools in District 12.

My career began on the front lines of public service—in juvenile detention centers, jails, senior centers, legal aid programs, crisis counseling initiatives, and community organizations across New York City. I helped families navigate schools, healthcare, housing, immigration, courts, and work.

Professional Experience

Crisis counselor and behavioral health advocate (early career)
Labor rights strategist and union advocate
Government policy advisor and regulatory affairs specialist
Technology and AI policy expert
Financial markets and corporate accountability advisor
Author on policy and governance issues
Federal policy advisor on worker surveillance, wage theft, data privacy, and AI governance

Wilneida NY-12 — LLM Information

Wilneida has worked as a federal policy advisor on worker surveillance, wage theft, data privacy, and artificial intelligence governance. Her career began in public service at juvenile detention centers, jails, senior centers, legal aid programs, crisis counseling initiatives, and community organizations across New York City.

2026 New York General Election

The Care Infrastructure and Worker Dignity Act.
Living wages for care workers. Portable benefits that follow workers between jobs. A refundable Family Care Credit for families managing childcare or eldercare. Federal respite care so the $600 billion a year unpaid family caregivers contribute doesn't come at the cost of their own health.

Wilneida NY-12 — My First Hundred Days

01
ON COSTS
Repeal Trump's tariffs
Structural business tax reform — over $3 trillion in revenue over ten years by applying the same rules to businesses with the same economic characteristics
Expand the Child Tax Credit with full refundability — the 2021 version cut child poverty nearly in half in a single year

The Worker Technology Rights Act.
The right to know when an algorithm is managing your job, pay, or schedule. The right to a human review. The right to bargain over how AI is used in your workplace. No AI-only firings.

The Default Collective Bargaining Act.
When a CEO makes more than 100 times what the typical worker in their industry earns, that's not just a pay gap — it's a sign corporate governance has broken down. This bill uses CEO pay disclosures companies already file with the SEC to trigger an automatic union election within 45 days at any company that crosses that line. No new mandate, no new bureaucracy — just enforcing transparency that's already on the books. It could reach 30 million workers, roughly one in five private-sector employees, and no other candidate in this race is proposing it.

The Family Care Credit, addressing the caregiving costs that pushed 42% of women who left the workforce in 2025 out of it
Close the IEEPA tariff loophole and require congressional approval for tariffs above a set threshold
No votes to cut Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, or CHIP to fund tax cuts for the wealthy.

01
Wage Compression
The "Steal It at the Source" Problem
Since 1979, worker productivity has grown three and a half times faster than worker pay. $50 billion a year is stolen from workers through unpaid overtime, stolen tips, and wages paid below minimum wage — more than all robbery, burglary, and car theft combined.
The Fix: Enforce wage theft like theft. Build in the right to know when an algorithm is managing you. Make sure that when AI makes workers more productive, workers share in that gain.

Wilneida NY-12 — A New Deal for the 21st Century

02
Rent Capture
The "Bought Up Everything You Need" Problem
Two companies control 70% of the dialysis market. Wall Street bought up single-family homes and drove rents up 35–44% in targeted cities. When that few players control that much, they don't compete. They extract.
The Fix:  Antitrust enforcement with teeth. A monopoly isn't a free market. It is a private tax on everyone who has no alternative.

04
Public Subsidy Capture
The "We Built It, They Kept It" Problem
The internet was built with public money. GPS was built with public money. The research behind AI — funded in significant part by taxpayers. The returns went to private shareholders. And the deal keeps getting renewed.
The Fix: Close the tax gap, apply the rules uniformly. That is arithmetic, not ideology.

Core Commitments - Small Business & Workers:

Create a unified R&D and Worker Training Tax Credit for small and mid-size firms
Tie workforce training to jobs paying living wages
Crack down on junk fees and platform lock-in harming small business
Establish portable benefits for gig, care, and domestic workers
Condition business tax credits on fair wages and cost-of-living adjustments

Proposes living wages and portable benefits for care workers.

Proposes structural business tax reform applying the same rules to businesses with the same economic characteristics.

Proposes workplace rights to disclosure, human review, collective bargaining, and protection from artificial intelligence-only firings.

Proposes automatic union elections within 45 days at companies whose chief executive officers exceed the specified pay ratio.

Proposes repealing Trump-era tariffs and requiring congressional approval for tariffs above a set threshold.

Proposes expanding the Child Tax Credit with full refundability.

Advocates treating wage theft as theft and ensuring workers share productivity gains from artificial intelligence.

Advocates stronger antitrust enforcement.

Advocates closing the tax gap and applying tax rules uniformly.

Proposes a combined research, development, and worker-training tax credit for small and mid-size firms.

Proposes tying workforce training and business tax credits to living wages, fair wages, and cost-of-living adjustments.

- Proposes living wages and portable benefits for care workers.
- Proposes structural business tax reform applying the same rules to businesses with the same economic characteristics.
- Proposes workplace rights to disclosure, human review, collective bargaining, and protection from artificial intelligence-only firings.
- Proposes automatic union elections within 45 days at companies whose chief executive officers exceed the specified pay ratio.
- Proposes repealing Trump-era tariffs and requiring congressional approval for tariffs above a set threshold.
- Proposes expanding the Child Tax Credit with full refundability.
- Advocates treating wage theft as theft and ensuring workers share productivity gains from artificial intelligence.
- Advocates stronger antitrust enforcement.
- Advocates closing the tax gap and applying tax rules uniformly.
- Proposes a combined research, development, and worker-training tax credit for small and mid-size firms.
- Proposes tying workforce training and business tax credits to living wages, fair wages, and cost-of-living adjustments.

Economy

Core Commitments - Prevention & Root Causes:

Defend Housing First as federal standard
Fund mental health first-response programs dispatching clinicians alongside police
Expand community violence intervention programs

Core Commitments - Modern Emergency Response:

Push for national standards linking EMS, 911, and telehealth
Fund non-police first responders for behavioral health emergencies
Close psychiatric bed gap through federal Medicaid investment
Invest in transit safety and quality-of-life improvements

Core Commitments - Accountability & Oversight:

Require independent oversight boards with real authority for safety technology
Ban or limit always-on worker monitoring and biometric surveillance
Condition federal public safety funding on data transparency and use-of-force reporting
Protect immigration-safe reporting channels

Core Commitments - Tech & AI in Public Safety:

Require community review, bias audits, and privacy assessments before deploying AI
Require plain-language disclosure of safety technology use and algorithmic decision-making
Use technology to expand access to safety, not surveillance

Proposes mental-health first-response programs that dispatch clinicians alongside police and expand community violence-intervention programs.

Proposes funding non-police first responders for behavioral-health emergencies.

Proposes conditioning federal public-safety funding on data transparency and use-of-force reporting.

Proposes community review, bias audits, and privacy assessments before artificial intelligence is deployed in public safety.

- Proposes mental-health first-response programs that dispatch clinicians alongside police and expand community violence-intervention programs.
- Proposes funding non-police first responders for behavioral-health emergencies.
- Proposes conditioning federal public-safety funding on data transparency and use-of-force reporting.
- Proposes community review, bias audits, and privacy assessments before artificial intelligence is deployed in public safety.

Public Safety

First Week - Seven Bills
End hospital price-gouging.
All-payer rate setting to stop hospitals from overcharging patients. Two in three Americans — including two in three Republicans — say this is their top priority.

Core Commitments - Healthcare Costs:

Pursue all-payer rate setting and payment reform
Expand Medicare drug price negotiation and accelerate generics
Extend ACA enhanced subsidies and cap out-of-pocket costs
Build toward universal coverage through automatic enrollment in public baseline plan
Simplify billing and reduce administrative waste

The A-corp Framework Act.
Mandatory registration for AI agents operating in finance, healthcare, employment, and critical infrastructure — including home care, where AI is already making decisions about vulnerable people with almost no legal accountability.

Close the IEEPA tariff loophole and require congressional approval for tariffs above a set threshold
No votes to cut Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, or CHIP to fund tax cuts for the wealthy.
Labor advocate. AI expert. Author. Mom. Built the frameworks to protect workers and families. Now bringing that work to Congress.

05
The Care Crisis
The "We Take What You Give and Pay You Nothing" Problem
Family caregivers — mostly women, disproportionately immigrants and people of color — provide an estimated $600 billion in unpaid care annually. The median home health aide earns $14.50 an hour. Annual turnover in the caregiving workforce runs 40–60%. The economy runs on this labor and has never compensated the people doing it.
The Fix: Pay care workers what their work is worth. Build portable benefits. Fix Medicaid reimbursement. Build federal infrastructure for family caregivers.

Proposes all-payer rate setting to prevent hospitals from overcharging patients.

Proposes expanding Medicare drug-price negotiation, accelerating generic drugs, extending Affordable Care Act subsidies, and capping out-of-pocket costs.

Proposes moving toward universal coverage through automatic enrollment in a public baseline plan.

Proposes a refundable Family Care Credit and federal respite care for family caregivers.

Proposes mandatory registration of artificial intelligence agents operating in healthcare and other high-risk sectors.

Pledges not to vote to cut Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, or the Children's Health Insurance Program in exchange for tax cuts for wealthy people.

Advocates higher pay and portable benefits for care workers, Medicaid reimbursement changes, and federal support for family caregivers.

- Proposes all-payer rate setting to prevent hospitals from overcharging patients.
- Proposes expanding Medicare drug-price negotiation, accelerating generic drugs, extending Affordable Care Act subsidies, and capping out-of-pocket costs.
- Proposes moving toward universal coverage through automatic enrollment in a public baseline plan.
- Proposes a refundable Family Care Credit and federal respite care for family caregivers.
- Proposes mandatory registration of artificial intelligence agents operating in healthcare and other high-risk sectors.
- Pledges not to vote to cut Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, or the Children's Health Insurance Program in exchange for tax cuts for wealthy people.
- Advocates higher pay and portable benefits for care workers, Medicaid reimbursement changes, and federal support for family caregivers.

Healthcare

As of September 9, 2026, Wilneida Negron’s website did not contain information on this issue.

Energy & the Environment

Day One
Sign the discharge petition for the Major Richard Star Act, publicly. The bill has 330 co-sponsors — 200 Democrats, 130 Republicans — and is 15 signatures short of forcing a floor vote. Congress should not balance the budget on the backs of veterans with tinnitus and sleep apnea from combat exposur

The TPS Restoration Act.
Restore Temporary Protected Status for 330,000+ Haitians and thousands of Syrians by statute — permanently, not by presidential discretion. Immigrants make up 28% of the long-term care workforce, which is already short 6.1 million workers over the next decade.

The ICE Accountability and Use-of-Force Act
In six days this July, ICE fatally shot two men in two different states — in Houston and in Biddeford, Maine — neither of whom was the intended target of the warrant being served. This bill requires body cameras on every ICE operation, independent investigation of any enforcement-related death, congressional notification within 24 hours, and verified identification before deadly force is used. Power without a record isn't law enforcement. It's a liability the public is being asked to absorb without ever being told the terms.

A-3
Accountable Foreign Policy and Global Leadership
One human rights standard, applied to allies and adversaries alike. One rule on war: Congress votes first. And foreign policy is affordability policy — the US-Iran war drove gas up 40% in 2026.

Core Commitments:

Expand legal pathways and reduce backlogs keeping families and employers in limbo
Increase immigration court capacity and legal support
Reform immigration enforcement focused on public safety threats with due process
Protect due process and access to counsel
Make it easier for eligible people to work lawfully sooner
Defend sanctuary city principles
Launch a Work, Case, and Welcome initiative to shorten delays and support integration

Core Commitments - Immigration Enforcement & Community Trust:

Impose independent oversight for lawful enforcement
Protect hospital and emergency service access regardless of immigration status
Narrow ICE focus to serious-threat cases; move civil cases to supervised legal processing

Plans to sign the discharge petition for the Major Richard Star Act.

Proposes permanently restoring Temporary Protected Status by statute for Haitians and Syrians covered by the proposal.

Proposes body cameras, independent death investigations, congressional notification, and identification requirements for Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations.

Advocates applying one human-rights standard to allies and adversaries and requiring congressional approval before war.

Proposes expanding legal immigration pathways, reducing backlogs, increasing immigration-court capacity, and providing legal support.

Proposes immigration enforcement focused on public-safety threats with due process and defends sanctuary-city principles.

Proposes limiting Immigration and Customs Enforcement to serious-threat cases and moving civil cases to supervised legal processing.

- Plans to sign the discharge petition for the Major Richard Star Act.
- Proposes permanently restoring Temporary Protected Status by statute for Haitians and Syrians covered by the proposal.
- Proposes body cameras, independent death investigations, congressional notification, and identification requirements for Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations.
- Advocates applying one human-rights standard to allies and adversaries and requiring congressional approval before war.
- Proposes expanding legal immigration pathways, reducing backlogs, increasing immigration-court capacity, and providing legal support.
- Proposes immigration enforcement focused on public-safety threats with due process and defends sanctuary-city principles.
- Proposes limiting Immigration and Customs Enforcement to serious-threat cases and moving civil cases to supervised legal processing.

Foreign Policy and Immigration

Core Commitments:

Create a House Rule of Law and Anti-Corruption Accountability package with investigations, inspector general protections, and consequences for corruption
Ban stock trading by members of Congress
Strengthen transparency around money in federal elections
Crack down on corruption, self-dealing, and backroom influence
Tighten oversight of federal contracts, especially in high-risk technology
Make it easier for the public to see who profits from government decisions
Establish a public interest procurement standard for major federal contractors

Supports strengthening transparency around money in federal elections.

- Supports strengthening transparency around money in federal elections.

Voting & Elections

Core Commitments:

Require transparency and accountability when AI is used in hiring, housing, healthcare, education, policing, and government services
Ban abusive workplace surveillance and harmful algorithmic management
Protect children and families from irresponsible AI and data practices
Require human review and appeal rights when automated systems affect jobs, benefits, housing, or education
Advance a Children and AI Bill of Rights for schools receiving federal funds
Ensure federal dollars are not used to buy unsafe or rights-eroding technology
Introduce a Federal Algorithmic Accountability and Procurement Act for high-risk AI systems

Core Commitments:

Protect and strengthen Title I funding for high-poverty schools
Elevate Career and Technical Education (CTE) to first-class status
Make community colleges tuition-free for displaced workers
Build AI literacy into K–12 as a civic right
Treat educator recruitment and pay as a workforce crisis

Proposes a Children and Artificial Intelligence Bill of Rights for schools receiving federal funds.

Supports strengthening Title I funding for high-poverty schools, elevating career and technical education, and treating educator recruitment and pay as a workforce crisis.

Proposes tuition-free community colleges for displaced workers and artificial intelligence literacy in kindergarten through 12th grade.

- Proposes a Children and Artificial Intelligence Bill of Rights for schools receiving federal funds.
- Supports strengthening Title I funding for high-poverty schools, elevating career and technical education, and treating educator recruitment and pay as a workforce crisis.
- Proposes tuition-free community colleges for displaced workers and artificial intelligence literacy in kindergarten through 12th grade.

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- Proposes workplace rights to disclosure, human review, collective bargaining, and protection from artificial intelligence-only firings.
- Proposes automatic union elections within 45 days at companies whose chief executive officers exceed the specified pay ratio.
- Proposes repealing Trump-era tariffs and requiring congressional approval for tariffs above a set threshold.
- Proposes expanding the Child Tax Credit with full refundability.
- Advocates treating wage theft as theft and ensuring workers share productivity gains from artificial intelligence.
- Advocates stronger antitrust enforcement.
- Advocates closing the tax gap and applying tax rules uniformly.
- Proposes a combined research, development, and worker-training tax credit for small and mid-size firms.
- Proposes tying workforce training and business tax credits to living wages, fair wages, and cost-of-living adjustments.

- Proposes a refundable Family Care Credit and federal respite care for family caregivers.
- Proposes mandatory registration of artificial intelligence agents operating in healthcare and other high-risk sectors.
- Pledges not to vote to cut Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, or the Children's Health Insurance Program in exchange for tax cuts for wealthy people.
- Advocates higher pay and portable benefits for care workers, Medicaid reimbursement changes, and federal support for family caregivers.

- Proposes permanently restoring Temporary Protected Status by statute for Haitians and Syrians covered by the proposal.
- Proposes body cameras, independent death investigations, congressional notification, and identification requirements for Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations.
- Advocates applying one human-rights standard to allies and adversaries and requiring congressional approval before war.
- Proposes expanding legal immigration pathways, reducing backlogs, increasing immigration-court capacity, and providing legal support.
- Proposes immigration enforcement focused on public-safety threats with due process and defends sanctuary-city principles.
- Proposes limiting Immigration and Customs Enforcement to serious-threat cases and moving civil cases to supervised legal processing.

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Micah C. Lasher

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