High-quality public education - combined with other appropriate support, as needed - is the best way to achieve the Oregon Business Plan's goal of reducing the number of people living in poverty.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A rich, robust, well-resourced public education is one of the best routes out of poverty and a pathway to prosperity.
A high-quality public education can build much-needed skills and knowledge. It can help children reach their God-given potential. It can stabilize communities and democracies. It can strengthen economies. It can combat the kind of fear and despair that evolves into hatred.
We need a more strategic, coordinated, statewide plan that identifies high-demand jobs or industries with a projected under-supply and offer training to get these Oregonians to work.
We have a lot of entitlement programs in this country, and we've seen how much they cost us on the back end when people don't have the education they need. I say let's make this investment on the front end. I think it'll be better for the individual and better for our state in the long term.
The real solution is to improve the incomes of the poor and provide their children with decent education.
Providing great schooling is the single most important thing we can do to help any child from a disadvantaged background succeed. It's also the single most important thing we can do to boost the long-term productivity of our economy.
One of the most powerful tools for empowering individuals and communities is making certain that any individual who wants to receive a quality education can do so.
A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty.
So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it's a better education overall.
Oregonians expect the state to prioritize the health and well-being of them and their families.
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