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PALMETTO PRIORITIES
Statehouse Report encourages state leaders to develop and implement
Palmetto Priorities involving several issues to make the state better a
better place. Click the link to learn more about our suggestions for bipartisan
policy objectives.
Here is a summary of our Palmetto Priorities:
CORRECTIONS: Reduce the prison population by 25 percent by 2020.
EDUCATION: Cut the state's dropout rate in half by 2020.
ELECTIONS: Increase voter registration to 75 percent by 2015.
ENVIRONMENT: Adopt a state energy policy that requires energy producers to generate 20 percent of energy from renewable sources by 2020.
ETHICS: Overhaul state ethics laws.
HEALTH CARE: Ensure affordable and accessible health care.
JOBS: Develop a Cabinet-level post to add, retain 10,000 small business jobs per year.
POLITICS: Have a vigorous two- or multi-party political system of governance.
ROADS: Strengthen all bridges and upgrade state roads by 2015.
SAFETY: Cut the state's violent crime rate by one-third by 2016.
TAX REFORM: Remove outdated special interest sales tax exemptions as part of an overall reform of the state's tax structure to be completed by 2014.
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