Adam Miller On The Issues
Helping Our Veterans-
Ohio has one of the largest populations of living military veterans in the United States. With almost 900,000 living Ohio veterans, we need to do more for our Veterans and their families. After returning from military service in Afghanistan, I worked with community stakeholders to help start a statewide free legal service for Ohio Veterans. We need to expand programs for homeless vets and provide greater treatment options for young vets struggling with PTSD and traumatic brain injuries. To improve veteran’s services, County Veterans Service commissions (created by state law) should be expanded to include a military spouse, a National Guard/Reserve member, and a post 9/11 veteran. The Ohio Veterans Homes across the State should be expanded and should be permitted to accept patients dealing with post traumatic health issues. As a fourth generation, Hilltop USA native it is a tremendous honor & privilege to be a candidate to represent such a resilient and hard working community.
Jobs And The Economy-
We need to restore incentives for labor-management innovative business partnerships, while leveraging local non profits/foundations, career centers, school districts, community colleges and State University programs (including R & D, technology) to attract and retain small business start ups, local entrepreneurs, farmers, shop keepers and manufacturers capable of sustaining and growing their businesses.
Education-
We need more State resources targeted to education and job training. For education, early childhood reading and after school latchkey programs will really help parents struggling to make ends meet and their kids. The State Legislature can do more to help community centers, libraries and school principals/elementary school PTOs obtain state and federal grant dollars to hire the teachers, paraprofessionals and obtain the facilities and technology to support these impactful programs. For jobs, real world, on the job experience must be factored into employment eligibility. A person who has served in the National Guard, Reserve or on Active Military Duty and earned a military job specialty should get credit for those skills. They should be able to enter the civilian work force immediately, without having to cut through red tape and bureaucratic obstacles. By enabling pathways to good jobs and through expanded access to impactful education programs, we will meet this challenge.
Healthcare
Access to affordable healthcare should be a right, not a privilege. Unfortunately, that is not the case.
Ohio has one of the largest populations of living military veterans in the United States. With almost 900,000 living Ohio veterans, we need to do more for our Veterans and their families. After returning from military service in Afghanistan, I worked with community stakeholders to help start a statewide free legal service for Ohio Veterans. We need to expand programs for homeless vets and provide greater treatment options for young vets struggling with PTSD and traumatic brain injuries. To improve veteran’s services, County Veterans Service commissions (created by state law) should be expanded to include a military spouse, a National Guard/Reserve member, and a post 9/11 veteran. The Ohio Veterans Homes across the State should be expanded and should be permitted to accept patients dealing with post traumatic health issues. As a fourth generation, Hilltop USA native it is a tremendous honor & privilege to be a candidate to represent such a resilient and hard working community.
Jobs And The Economy-
We need to restore incentives for labor-management innovative business partnerships, while leveraging local non profits/foundations, career centers, school districts, community colleges and State University programs (including R & D, technology) to attract and retain small business start ups, local entrepreneurs, farmers, shop keepers and manufacturers capable of sustaining and growing their businesses.
Education-
We need more State resources targeted to education and job training. For education, early childhood reading and after school latchkey programs will really help parents struggling to make ends meet and their kids. The State Legislature can do more to help community centers, libraries and school principals/elementary school PTOs obtain state and federal grant dollars to hire the teachers, paraprofessionals and obtain the facilities and technology to support these impactful programs. For jobs, real world, on the job experience must be factored into employment eligibility. A person who has served in the National Guard, Reserve or on Active Military Duty and earned a military job specialty should get credit for those skills. They should be able to enter the civilian work force immediately, without having to cut through red tape and bureaucratic obstacles. By enabling pathways to good jobs and through expanded access to impactful education programs, we will meet this challenge.
Healthcare
Access to affordable healthcare should be a right, not a privilege. Unfortunately, that is not the case.