jobs agenda to get the economy moving redesign public services to support the economy revamp the tax...
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• Jobs agenda to get the economy moving • Redesign public services to support the economy• Revamp the tax system to incent economic growth
How to turn things around: Focus on Jobs and Income
How Can We Grow Jobs and Income?
• Agree that it is important, in GOOD times, not just bad.
• Agree that increasing incomes is the best way we can support families, public services and non-profits.
• Build community culture that respects business and responds to needs. (Attitude of public officials is important).
Support Industry Strategies• High Tech
– Semiconductors– Software– Bioscience
• Advanced Manufacturing– Metals– Machinery and
transportation equipment• Footwear, sports apparel and
outdoor gear• Natural Resources
– Forestry and Wood Products
– Ag– Food processing– Tourism
• Clean Technology– Solar manufacturing– Environmental
Technology and Services
– Energy efficiency– Electric vehicles– Green building and
design– Wind energy
• Creative Industries– Film and Video– Design
Identify statewide policy initiativesDevelop specific actions and set priorities among
them.• Improve tax and budget policy
• Strengthen education and workforce development
• Reduce health care cost and improve quality
• Enhance transportation infrastructure
• Strengthen our capacity for economic innovation
• Ensure reliable, affordable and clean energy
• Strengthen access to capital
• Ensure the availability of shovel-ready industrial land., connected to infrastructure
• Simplify/streamline regulations and permitting
• Preserve/strengthen economic development tools and incentives
• Jobs agenda to get the economy moving • Redesign public services to support the economy• Revamp the tax system to incent economic growth
How to turn things around: Focus on Jobs and Income
Redesign delivery to reduce cost and maintain service
Raise TaxesReduce / Eliminate
Services
Redesign delivery to reduce cost and maintain service
Raise TaxesReduce / Eliminate Services
Redesign delivery to reduce cost and maintain service
Raise TaxesReduce / Eliminate Services
Redesign 101: Develop a long range vision
Redesign 201: Calculate the per unit costs of everything (and tie them to results)
Redesign 301: Follow the money, challenge systems to deliver more with less, and drive better outcomes (especially in education)
REDESIGN EDUCATION
The Charge• Increase students attaining
degrees to meet 40/40/20.• Cut an average 1-year from
time to degree• Increase minimum
standards in reading, writing, and mathematics
• Reduce costs per student by 10 percent or more by accelerating learning, applying new learning tools, and shrinking overhead
Possible Areas for Redesign
• Revamp incentives to reward student achievement, credit, and degree completion
• Create performance-based scholarships
• Redesign financing of special education and ELL
• Incent districts and colleges to consolidate delivery and administration
• Reconsider the state role in student transportation
REDESIGN HEALTHCARE
The Charge• World class health for each
Oregonian by 2020– Medical care at 10% of GSP– Universal access to healthcare– Healthy and satisfied users– Healthy communities in the
top five or above of World Benchmark of Health
Possible Areas for Redesign
• Design an insurance exchange that gets the incentives right for customers and providers
• Payment reform• New benefit package
designs• Value-based purchasing• Administrative
simplification
REDESIGN CORRECTIONS
The Charge• Identify fiscally sound,
research-based sentencing and corrections policies that protect public safety, hold offenders accountable, and control costs
Possible Areas for Redesign
• Create a modern system of uniform, transparent, and proportional sentencing guideline practices that optimizes prison use
• Selectively adjust M11 sentences
• Expand and enhance home detention and supervision
• Implement incentives and performance goals for counties
REDESIGN LABOR
The Charge• Ensure a high quality
public sector workforce whose compensation is benchmarked to comparable private sector occupations
Possible Areas for Redesign
• Sunset the 6% PERS pickup• Phase-in employee
participation in healthcare costs
• Tactical jobs agenda to get the economy moving • Redesign public services to support the economy• Revamp the tax system to incent economic growth
How to turn things around: Focus on Jobs and Income
REDESIGN REVENUE/TAX POLICY
The Charge• Develop a stable revenue
source for education and other critical services, and create an environment for economic growth
Possible Areas for Redesign
• Reduce the capital gains rate
• Put the Rainy Day Fund in the Constitution with a 10% cap to be filled with personal kickers
• Create a higher education stability fund to be filled with corporate and capital gains kickers
• Set aside an ending balance for the Rainy Day Fund