NCJW’s priorities are listed below and reflect much (though not all) of our agenda.

Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice

• Abortion Justice Act
• Access to Birth Control Act
• EACH Act and remove other abortion coverage bans
• Equal Access to Contraception for Veterans
• Expanding Access to Family Planning Act
• Freedom to Decide Act
• My Body, My Data Act
• Right to IVF Act
• Stop Anti-Abortion Disinformation (SAD) Act 
• Women’s Health Protection Act 
• Ensure access to medication abortion.

Economic Justice

• Childcare for Working Families Act
• FAMILY Act
• Healthy Families Act
• Paycheck Fairness Act
• Permanently extend the expanded Child Tax Credit and Earned Income Tax Credit. 
• Make investments into quality and affordable childcare and pre-K, including the childcare workforce.

Federal Courts

• Ensure nominees for federal judgeships are fair, independent, and qualified representing a diversity of backgrounds and experiences.

Civil Rights

• Countering Antisemitism Act
• Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act
• Equality Act
• Improving Reporting to Prevent Hate Act
• Safe Schools Improvement Act
• Grant statehood to the District of Columbia.
• Increased funding for the Nonprofit Security Grant Program and community hate crime prevention efforts.

Gender-Based Violence

• Be HEARD in the Workplace Act
• Increased funding for Violence Against Women Act programs.

Gun Violence Prevention

• Assault Weapons Ban
• Federal Extreme Risk Protection Order Act
• Eliminate loopholes that allow convicted stalkers and domestic abusers access to guns.
• Universal background checks and expand the time required for a background check.

Health Care

• Black Maternal Health Momnibus
• Freedom to Travel for Health Care Act
• Global HER Act
• HEAL for Immigrant Families Act
• Real Education and Access for Healthy Youth Act

Human Needs

• Pass a federal budget and appropriations bills to fund human needs programs, protect low-income and vulnerable people, promote job creation and strengthen the economy, increase revenue from fair sources, and reflect our nation’s priorities.
• Reauthorize the Farm Bill with full funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).

Immigration

• Enact a pathway to citizenship for Dreamers and millions of immigrant youth, Temporary Protected Status (TPS) and Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) recipients, farm workers, and essential workers.

Israel

• Reauthorize the Nita M. Lowey Middle East Partnership for Peace Act (MEPPA) and ensure full program funding for FY26 to build Israeli and Palestinian civil society.

Voting Rights

• Freedom to Vote Act
• John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act