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Non-profit seeking to grow VT’s middle class updates its research priority list for 2025.
by Ben Kinsley, for Campaign for Vermont
MONTPELIER, VERMONT – Last week, Campaign for Vermont Prosperity (CFV) announced its research priorities for 2025. Topping the list were education, affordable housing, and health care.
“None of these should be surprising,” said CFV President Pat McDonald, “these are all areas where everyday Vermonters are falling behind.” In recent years education spending has grown at double digit rates, so have health insurance premiums; the latter has increased 92% since 2018.
Similarly, housing costs have also increased rapidly. According to the Vermont Housing and Finance Agency (VHFA), the income required to purchase the median priced home on the market doubled from $60k per year to $120k per year since 2020. CFV points to the cost of construction for state-funded projects exceeding $500 per sq/ft as a critical area to address in order to make housing efforts truly affordable.
CFV also seeks to better understand the cost-drivers in the health care system by analyzing Medicaid and Medicare data related to hospital billing to understand whether or not specific hospitals are driving the bulk of the health care spending. Similarly, on the education front, the organization plans to quantify a previous proposal that focused on administrative cost-savings as well as look more deeply at the current funding formula and how it drives costs in the education delivery system.
“Vermont employers have done their part, increasing wages at an average rate of 6% per year since 2018, but that is still not enough to keep up with these other increasing costs. However that also ignores the fact that an growing number of Vermonters are on fixed incomes and do not seeing that kind of income growth,” said McDonald, “they are falling further behind.”
The full list of priorities and research questions can be found on the organization’s website – CampaignForVermont.org
CFV is a nonprofit, nonpartisan advocacy organization dedicated to the vision of a more prosperous Vermont and growing middle class. They seek to accomplish these goals by reconnecting Vermonters to their government and advocating for more transparent policy-making.
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Campaign for Vermont seeks THE OBVIOUS to rising housing, school, health care costs
CFV: HINT! See Rob Roper’s recent piece,
People Experiencing Progressive Policies:
https://vermontdailychronicle.com/roper-people-experiencing-progressive-policies/
Can someone please tell these people, they are all little late to the game? We already new this has been, and will continue to be a problem. How about fix the problems for a start, you know, instead of talking about it.
One answer may be to stop the legislators from funding VHIP – the money is going to a private company which is based in Rutland but has a parent company based in California…. Where is our tax money going/ How much of it is sucked away by the administration of these funds? Wouldn’t it be better to encourage legislators to keep their hand out of our pockets so we can do our own investing in housing and our own fix up of the housing we already own?
The problem is OBVIOUS. It always has been. Campaign for Vermont simply rehashes the complaints – over and over again. It’s the solution that’s evasive.
As long as the majority of Vermont voters (the Progressives and their families who are employed by Vermont’s Education, Healthcare, and Government sectors) continue to elect legislators and executives to do their bidding, the spending, dysfunction, and taxation, will continue to worsen.
The question that remains, to which the answer might indicate a solution, is:
How can a minority of conservatives convince Vermont’s majority ‘deep state’ progressive players that they are cutting their own throats too?
Just watching and listening to the Education and Healthcare reform people arranging deck chairs on the Vermont Titanic, while the ship is OBVIOUSLY sinking, is an amazing behavioral phenomenon to behold.
Mass hysteria, Herd Mentality, Mass Formation Psychosis, Lemings marching over the cliff into the sea – call it what you will – the ‘deep state’ player’s only retort is to ‘project’ their failures onto the rest of us, by claiming that we’re the deluded ones and that our recommendations will result in even more disastrous dysfunction than what we’re experiencing today.
The inconsistent double standard is, of course, that the ‘deep state’ progressives won’t allow even one conservative policy foot in the door. And I’m not talking about making everyone abide by conservative policies, in the way they force the rest of us to abide by their progressive tenants. Even when the conservative recommendation is a compromise, to let individuals make their own choices, to follow progressive or conservative principles, and accept personal responsibility for doing so, they say no.
Please. Go figure. I invite anyone of the progressives reading this VDC discussion to shed light on this phenomenon… and to point out that this is one of the only platforms in Vermont that won’t censor them.
I’m a big fan of this organization, one of a few I’m willing to support.
Another example of performance art: “None of these should be surprising,” said CFV President Pat McDonald. How long has Pat been inside where the sourest of milk and putrid sausage is formulated, produced, and codified? All the Acts of enormity never pinged a notion these rules and regulations were not for the People, they were to benefit the corporation (aka: lobbyists, NGOs, donors, friends, relatives, and associates?) It all seemed too good to be true – because it never was true – it was all skullduggery, collusion, and fraud with impunity for decades. Anyone, regardless of party status, holding a seat or board position, all benefitted, all got favored status, all the accolades, all at the expense of laborous indebted servitude of the serfs.
Start with figuring out why the USA is $37+ Trillion in debt, how it was allowed to get that bad in the first place, and why is everyone pretending it isn’t the end for the grand great experiment. Who holds the collateral notes that is leveraged beyond redemption? The show must go on until the curtain falls – will fall significantly hard on some.