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State of the State Address (2006)
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2006 State of the State address given by Governor Rod Blagojevich on January 18, 2006 outlining the accomplishments made over the last three years to help working families. The Governor proposed several major new initiatives to create even more jobs, improve education, increase access to healthcare and continue to lower the crime rate.
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- Education: Early childhood education
- Education: Educational finance: State aid to schools
- Education: Higher education: Student financial aid
- Education: Public schools: High schools
- Education: Students: College students
- Government finance and taxes: Government revenues: Taxes: Sales taxes
- Government finance and taxes: State finance
- Health and medicine: Diseases: Alcohol and drug abuse
- Health and medicine: Family planning
- Health and medicine: Health care: Medical studies and experimental treatments
- Health and medicine: Health insurance and health care coverage
- Health and medicine: Public health
- Laws and regulations: Administrative rules
- Laws and regulations: Labor laws
- Natural resources and the environment: Environmental laws and regulations
- Natural resources and the environment: Waste disposal and hazardous sites
- Public safety and consumer protection: Public safety
- State government: State finance
- Transportation: Roads and highways
- Transportation: Traffic safety
- Utilities and communications: Energy resources: Petroleum and natural gas
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.1 2006 State of the State Address Governor Rod R. Blagojevich January 18, 2006 little more than three years ago, the people of Illinois decided to bring us together to chart new course. To make Illinois once again the land of opportunity. To shake up the system here in Springfield that accepted mediocrity and failure. To ma ke state government begin again to work for the people, rather than the other way around. Despite facing one of the most challenging periods in our state's hist ory, Illinois today is now leading the nation in taking steps that he lp real people, people who work, middle class families, build better lives. We are making real progress but there is much more to do. believe in the basic democratic principle that government can be and must be force for good. An active government that helps pe ople and rights wrongs is what our founding fathers envisioned, it's what Abraham Lincoln believed in, it's what makes serving in government worthwhile. When we came together thre
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Illinois
Office of the Governor
Related Materials: http://www.illinois.gov/gov/stateofstate2006.cfm
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Organization: Office of the Governor
207 State House
Springfield, IL 62706
Phone: 217-782-0244 or 312-814-2121
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