And efforts to fight Climate Change amid all the other issues and well break away from this portion of this mornings washington journal. Get you live now to minneapolis for the state of the state address with governor eric holcomb. And we are trying to get the audio, which you may notice is missing right now from this indiana state of the state address. Governor eric holcomb who you can see but not hear coming to us live from the State Capitol in indiana. And these are good jobs with wages 1 4 higher than the average hoosier wage. Ive challenged the secretary and president elaine beetle and other folks at the Indiana Economic Development federation to do it again this year. Ive upped the ante. How about 35,000 new job commitments in 2018 . [ applause ] even as we focus on making life better for hoosiers took, were also preparing for the future. We have a fullyfunded Infrastructure Program that provides long term certainty. Our next level roads Program Provides nearly 6 billion in this
The general assembly, my fellow it is an honor to stand before you for the second time to discuss the state of our state and the work we will do this year to make life better for all of our citizens. When i became governor one year ago, i took the baton with momentum created by previous administrations. And together, we have worked every day, not just to sustain the momentum, but to build on it. We have worked to make sure the Business Climate in indiana remains among the very best in the nation. That hoosiers have the tools they need to take advantage of growing opportunities. And that our State Government is among the most efficient and effective for the very people that we serve. Visionar, i outlined a to take indiana to the next level. And i laid out five goals. Five goals to help us get there. 2018 is all about taking those tools that we have been provided and putting them to work for a single purpose, to make life better for all hoosiers. So the question before us now is what mus
Since welfare reform has continued to rise, that maybe even risen faster, so were spending more money actually fighting poverty since welfare reform than before welfare reform begin. These all in constant dollars. This is not just a reflection of inflation. This is a collection of where actually spending more money on antipoverty programs on the hundred plus programs i was talking about. Even if we have somehow held and with its block grant state and its decline in real terms, what weve done is simply shift spending to other programs, particularly to in kind of programs rather than cash programs. We have moved away from giving people cash and have increased hitting people of the types of benefits, housing, medicaid which is the biggest of all these programs, job training programs, education programs, food stands and so on are all together. At the same time the question that comes up with what we have done in terms of poverty. Again this blue line behind me is when welfare reform kicks
Qualities like common decency in the way that we treat each other and a way that i think damages our culture in a serious way that needs to be opposed so i agree. Go on to north carolina, grace is on our republican line. Go ahead. Call,l go to the next delano from missouri, democrats line. Like to knowld what you would do about Flint Michigans water condition. Guest thank you for the question. These wein crises like have to make sure that local governments have the resources in thein case cases where they dont have them to ensure that peoples immediate needs are met. It is unacceptable that the people of flint, michigan would be Drinking Water that is unsafe to drink. We need to the states need to issue. On this also, federal Government Agencies failed as well. There needs to be accountability. In these crises as president , i would ensure that local governments and state governments have the resources they need to respond immediately. Then we have got to look at reforms that ensure th
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