Cory moved to Newark after law school and started a nonprofit organization to provide legal services for low-income families, helping tenants take on slumlords. In 1998, Cory moved into “Brick Towers” in Newark, which eventually became a housing project. Cory lived there until the housing project was demolished in 2006.
Cory still lives in Newark's Central Ward today, where he sees first-hand many of the challenges he's working to solve in Congress, such as lack of access to affordable health care, environmental injustice, food insecurity, and our broken criminal justice system.
Cory believes that health care is a human right – no American should go without the quality, affordable care they need and deserve. Throughout his time in the Senate, he has been a leader in the fight to protect the Affordable Care Act, while also championing proposals to build upon the law, increase access to care, and lower costs. As one of the Senate’s strongest proponents for improving health equity, Cory has advanced efforts to tackle our nation’s maternal mortality crisis, expand research and public health activities for sickle cell disease, and increase access to addiction treatment.