Progressive Goals for a Strong Wisconsin
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Strong Workforce
- Reach full employment by aligning talent development with economic development.
- Facilitate worker/management cooperation for efficient, safe and productive workplaces.
- Help Wisconsin grow more prosperous as each worker becomes more prosperous.
- Increase the world-wide visibility of Wisconsin’s highly skilled workforce.
- Promote a strong training network to ensure the employability of Wisconsin’s workforce.
Strong Economy
- Focus Wisconsin’s economic development strategy on growing family-supporting jobs.
- Enable Wisconsin to lead the region in job growth and in increases in personal income.
- Develop a bold, integrated strategy to increase personal income executed by leaders of business, education, labor and government.
- Foster private sector/government teamwork based on their respective strengths.
Strong Families
- Make sure that all citizens have access to affordable and effective healthcare.
- Strengthen the middle class.
- Support equal civil rights for all families.
- Keep religion in churches, mosques, and synagogues, not in government policy.
- Allow women to make their own decisions about appropriate medical care free from government interference.
- Promote tax fairness by reducing taxes on the middle class to give families more money to spend locally and ensuring fair share contributions from business and the very wealthy.
- Implement state corrections programs that maintain families and dramatically lower taxpayer costs.
- Assure access to what is needed to lead a middle class life.
Strong Communities
- Strengthen our public schools by focusing resources on them.
- Increase local control of public schools.
- Provide equal opportunity for each student.
- Advocate for strong funding for pre-schools.
- Enable communities to make their own decisions about residency and the allocation of shared revenue.
- Make sure there is strong support for reliable public transportation throughout Wisconsin’s metropolitan areas.
- Focus on family farming and small business in the state’s economic development initiatives in order to keep profits and young people in Wisconsin.
- Invest in 21st century communications and transportation in urban and rural communities.
- Encourage private/public collaborations. Regard government as a partner, rather than an adversary.
- Promote “buy local” programs.
- Share sales taxes with local communities.
- Continue the Main Street program.
- Grant municipalities an economic development credit to facilitate job growth or business development expansion.
- Amend tax subsidy laws that promote redevelopment to ensure their greater use and success.
Strong Voices
- Prevent lobbyists or outside groups from using Wisconsin as a lab to test their ideologies by ensuring that laws governing Wisconsin originate from its citizens.
- Guarantee free and fair access to voting rights along with safeguards to protect elections from fraud by election officials and voters.
- Subject more state and local government agencies to sunshine laws and enact non-partisan redistricting.
- Respect the needs of citizens across the state by governing through compromise and consensus-building.
Healthy Environment
- Partner with companies that are practicing sustainability policies.
- Support community energy-sustainability programs.
- Preserve our ground water, hunting grounds and wild places for future generations.
- Enforce our environmental policies and regulations.