KMCCLURE

KMCCLURE


 * State: ** Minnesota


 * Political Party: ** Democrat
 * Real Congressperson:** Tim Walz is the congressperson I chose because we are both democrats and his ideas and beliefs are closet to mine. [|**http://walz.house.gov/**]

1. One issue that I feel is important is __ education. __ Education has a huge impact on our society and since children are the future of American, every child should be well educated and prepared for life outside of schooling. I believe everyone should be given the opportunity to get a good, affordable education. As we stand now in order to get highest level of education out there you need to be able to pay large sums of money. I think the cost of going to college and private schools should be lowered because getting the education you deserve shouldn't be based on whether you can afford it or not. I also believe education should be based around what will help us in life, not on preparing us for tests such as the OATs and other things like that. We need to learn skills that will benifit us in the long run. Also, I think the standards in our schools should be raised because as of now America has one of the least educated societies out there. 2. Another issue that I feel is important is __ economy .__ As of now, the economy is a huge concern to all Americans and a top priority for the government. I believe we need to make small, government based projects to create new jobs and put more money back into the economy. By doing this we will also decress the unemploment rate by providing more people with jobs. Also, we can try to focuss our jobs around envorinmental things that way we are not only fixing the economy, but it will be helping with the envorinment and energy issue as well.Although the economy will not be fixed over night, taking small steps such as these could help us to gradually get our economy back to where it used to be. 3.__ Health and Saftey __is another very important issuse. Right now many Americans are either uninsured, or sturggleing to to pay the costs of health care and in order to fix this we need to find a way to ensure them a quliaty, yet affordable healthcare, that will still benifit the nation in a possitive way. One thing we could do is in areas of poverty, or lower employment rates, free health clinics could be provided. These health clinics should be of high quliaty and give adequate service, or else having them there is close to useless. In order to provide these health clinics for people to go, we could take a portion of tax dollars. This way we would not be taking from one specific group of people, like the upper class people because thats not fair, being as this clinic would be open to anybody. I also think we should make the cost of medicine cheaper because as of right now, prescriptions are very costly making it hard for those who need to take many in order to stay healthy, to afford.
 * Three Issues:**


 * My Bill Info:** Our bill, "Health Care in American" is about providing people no matter what race, gender or religon a quality and afforadable health care because as of now it is not adequate. Our bill is very simiar to the health care plans of other countires and involves people paying a tax in order to afford this. I believe people should pass our bill because this would be a good way to solve our problem of struggleing health care in a way that will benfit the people and the nation in general.HB 88

1. Minnesotas unemploment rate as of March 2009 is 8.9%, which is 3% higher than the adverage rate of unemploment of all the United States. 2. As of 2004, 9% of children ages 5-17 living in Minnesota are living below poverty level. 3. 91% percent of Minnesotas population are highschool graduates. (25 years or older) 4. Minnesotas average composite score on the ACT in 2008 was 22.6, which was the highest in the nation. 5.Of the state's workforce of more than 2.6 million people, about 30% work in service industries, nearly 25% are in trade, more than 15% work in manufacturing, and close to 15% are in government.
 * Five facts about Minnesota:**

1."Public data." __Google__. 09 May 2009 . 2. __The Democratic Party__. 08 May 2009 . 3.__Office of the Clerk__. 08 May 2009 . 4."ACT Scores." __Minnesota Office of Higher Education__. 09 May 2009  6."Minnesota: Government and Economy." __United States Geography__. 2009. ABC-CLIO. 10 May 2009 . 7."Minnesota: History." __United States Geography__. 2009. ABC-CLIO. 10 May 2009 . 8.__ABC-CLIO Social Studies Databases: Login__. 10 May 2009 . 9.__Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Home Page__. 10 May 2009 . 10.__Americans for Free Choice in Medicine__. 10 May 2009 .
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