Welcome.
I’m Sal DiDomenico, and I’m proud to be your State Senator.
It is an honor to serve the residents of Cambridge, Charlestown, Chelsea, and Everett. We are a proud and diverse district that represents the very best of our Commonwealth, and it is a great privilege to represent you in the Massachusetts Senate. I believe in pragmatic, progressive policies that lift up our families, address our community’s most challenging needs, and protect our most vulnerable residents. I am proud to continue working with you to move our entire Commonwealth forward. My office and I are always here to answer your questions or to be of any assistance, so please never hesitate to contact us if there is anything you need.
Contact
➤ OFFICE OF SENATOR SAL DIDOMENICO
State House, Room 405
Boston, MA 02133
☎ CONTACT
Sal.DiDomenico@masenate.gov
(617) 722-1650
WHAT I’M WORKING ON…
FOOD SECURITY
Food insecurity is a crisis with health, educational, and economic consequences, leaving children particularly vulnerable to the long-term impact. This is why I spent years championing a bill to provide free breakfast and lunch at all K-12 schools in Massachusetts. Thankfully, after so many years of advocacy, the Fiscal Year 2024 State Budget included permanent funding for universal school meals to guarantee no child will ever go hungry in school again. Now, we must keep fighting for more funding and state support to eliminate hunger for all our state’s residents.
Access to counsel
In 2018 alone, more than 40,000 households in Massachusetts were served with eviction papers, and over 92% of these tenants had to fight their eviction without help from an attorney. Most evictions happen quickly. Many tenants do not know how to protect themselves both before court and in court. Far too often, an eviction means homelessness. We can change this. That’s why I’m fighting to provide low-income tenants with legal counsel in eviction proceedings…
Access to justice
Some of the most pervasive injustices in our society come from actions that appear neutral on their face but perpetuate or result in discrimination when applied. While civil rights laws are meant to help people seek redress, proving intent to discriminate in court is impossible in most instances, making it increasingly difficult for victims of civil rights abuses to vindicate their rights in federal court. Enhancing statewide civil rights protections are more critical than ever, especially in the face of the attacks the previous Administration conducted on civil rights and civil liberties at the federal level…
comprehensive & inclusive sex ed
Sex education is essential to young people’s health, relationships, and life goals. Every young person deserves to have the information, resources, and skills they need to protect their health and build their future —without shame or judgment. As the sponsor of the Healthy Youth Act, I’m working to ensure that when Massachusetts schools teach sex ed they use curriculum that is research-informed, medically accurate, and includes information on a comprehensive range of topics, like healthy relationships, consent, and sexual orientation and gender identity…
lifting families out of poverty
Poverty hurts. Especially for our youngest and most vulnerable. Today in the Commonwealth, tens of thousands of children are living in “deep poverty.” This is unconscionable. While TAFDC benefits are intended to help struggling families meet their basic needs, it’s clear that the current grant is grossly inadequate, leaving thousands of people living far below the poverty line. It is the least we can do to increase these benefits to help lift our residents out of deep poverty and give them the tools they need to support themselves and their families. I’m working to ensure that no child in this Commonwealth lives in deep poverty any longer…
Wage Theft
In Massachusetts, the illegal practice of wage theft has become business-as-usual. Wage theft can come in many different forms, but all have the common denominator of hurting workers, their families, and our communities. In Massachusetts alone, nearly $1 billion in wages are stolen from hundreds of thousands of low-wage workers each year, with immigrant employees being especially vulnerable to this scheme. I’m fighting to uplift low-wage workers and families, stop corrupt employers, and end mass wage theft here in the Commonwealth…
this is just a snapshot.
Learn more about the bills I’ve sponsored and my stance of the biggest issues facing our district and the Commonwealth:
RECENT HAPPENINGS…
I want to hear from you.
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words to live by…
“There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.”