• 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