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Issue Position: Budget Priorities

Issue Position

Date: Jan. 1, 2016
Issues: Drugs Government Budget and Spending Education Criminal Justice

Vermont spends $50 million dollars more on Corrections than we spend on Higher Education every year. This at a time when students are burdened by college debt and employers are demanding a better-trained workforce. I will work to end the use of for-profit prisons, and increase treatment for drug addiction to lower our corrections population and use the savings to make college and vocational training more affordable for Vermonters.


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