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Policy Agenda

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Education

  • Advocate to preserve 4 year-old kindergarten through 12th grade education by refusing to allow cutbacks in hours or graduation requirements.
  • Advocate for a voluntary quality rating system for child care providers
  • Advocate to pass the Constitutional Amendment to end "minimally adequate" education in South Carolina.

Income

  • Promote expansion of the federal EITC program through increase in the number of local United Ways sponsoring volunteer tax preparation initiatives

Health

  • Advocate an increase in the South Carolina state tax on cigarettes in order to help fund Medicaid, as well as fund smoking prevention and cession efforts.
  • Advocate to preserve children's health care coverage.