Issue Position: Jobs & Innovation

Issue Position

The Goal: Getting Oregonians Back to Work

"We need more than an economic recovery to improve the lives of Oregonians for the long term. 'Recovery' implies going back to doing things the way we did in the past -- we need economic reinvention."

-- Governor Kitzhaber, speaking at "Gateway to the Globe," April 26, 2012

Objective 1: Continue supporting policies that have helped Oregon become one of the top 10 states to do business in, and continue leveraging our global competitive advantage for industries like advanced manufacturing, clean and high technology, forestry products, and apparel.

Objective 2: Prepare Oregon's workforce for the 21st century economy -- providing job training to today's workers and ensuring early success in school for tomorrow's innovators, inventors, and employees.

Objective 3: Provide profound cost advantages by updating old, out-of-date systems such as health care, driving down the cost of doing business for Oregon's small and large businesses alike.

Objective 4: Allow the state to work as a business accelerator and barrier buster with streamlined regulations and local collaborative approaches to economic development.

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